... favors mood and atmosphere over plot and momentum, creating a sense of desperation over a humid, overheated summer night.

| Jul 9, 2022

The Wild Goose Lake is essentially a manhunt thriller and its characters' bleak circumstances are a stand-in for the social ills that got them there in the first place.

| Jun 5, 2021

With a feature this arresting, the audience is luxuriating in every inch of every frame from start to finish.

| Apr 4, 2021

There's an undercurrent of anxiety navigating the calm waters...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2021

Watching Wild Goose Lake feels like watching a society crumble in real time...

| Original Score: A- | Feb 21, 2021

The Wild Goose Lake is a hoot, a Chinese crime thriller that proves Diao Yinan is a new master of dark, thrilling noir.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Feb 21, 2021

While Chinese director Diao Yinan's The Wild Goose Lake hardly reconfigures the crime thriller afresh, it does pare it down to the essentials to exhilarating effect...

| Feb 21, 2021

A perfect depiction of the inhumanity of an unfeeling city.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2021

Diao has a knack for noir, but he puts his own stamp on the material with an occasionally quirky and idiosyncratic tone.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2021

The innovative and slick cinematography by Dong Jingsong is a reason to see the film in its own right; Yinan's adroit ebb and flow of violence and plot twists is another, as is Gwei's alluringly enigmatic tagalong.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 25, 2020

Diao subtly combines crime and drama to underline a social commentary on the Chinese underworld, executed in a highly compelling visual style that portrays that section of society with sordid realism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 5, 2020

As a profound connoisseur of the history of cinema, the director Diao Yinan amalgamates atmospheres and suggestions... but the narration is confused and long-winded on several occasions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2020

While director Diao Yinan's visual compositions are impressive, his pacing is off.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2020

I lost the thread of it more than once, but director Diao has taken a cue from Wong Kar-wai to create a highly stylish neo-noir.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2020

Watch it for its beauty. Watch it for atmosphere. The film is still well worth the ticket.

| Jul 16, 2020

Hopefully we will see more of Diao Yinan's films soon. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 12, 2020

"Goose Lake" is a stunningly photographed ride, one that is never remotely dull and often heads into unexpected terrain.

| Original Score: B- | May 25, 2020

Diao isn't content just to make an engaging story, either, no matter how poignant... What Diao attends to most of all is his shot selection.

| May 6, 2020

If you want something that is not formulaic or by the book, then check out this bold, beautiful and brutal film.

| Apr 20, 2020

Great Wuhan, China-set neo-noir gangster film from auteur Yinan Diao with wuxia superstar Hu Ge in lead role. A Chinese Odd Man Out.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 17, 2020