| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2003

An astonishing directorial debut.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2002

A rigorous drama about the plight of a fifteen-year old girl during the Cultural Revolution in China.

| Mar 4, 2002

The flaw in the film comes with its bleak ending, that seemed to be contrived and used as a means of getting more sympathy out of the audience than it needed to.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 84/100 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Chen coats the traumatic moments with the same slick veneer she uses on the lighter ones, thus muting any effect they have on the audiences

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Chen shows an impressive grasp of nuance--in addition to just about every facet of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Easily makes a beautiful landscape film, but it also poses a challenge to viewers.

| Jan 1, 2000