Jia creates some poignant images to convey key transitions in the characters' lives.

| Jan 11, 2008

[Director Zhang-ke] Jia's virtuoso long takes, choreographed mise en scene, and feeling for character and behavior place him in a class by himself.

| Jan 11, 2008

Lays bare the tao of contemporary China, like a doctor taking a pulse.

| Jun 24, 2006

Jia Zhang Ke delivers what may well be his finest work to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2003

Too much is left unsaid.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2003

A stunning study of ennui.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 26, 2003

May be Jia's most concentrated evocation of contemporary China's spiritual malaise.

Full Review | Mar 25, 2003

Proves to be just as vapid and directionless as its no-account subjects.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2002

Perhaps the world doesn't need another picture on disaffected youth, but Pleasures is about more than alienation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2002

Unknown Pleasures, Jia Zhangke's haunting follow-up to Platform, tracks various stages of underdevelopment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 27, 2002