Is Yang as great as Hou Hsiao-hsien? Well, he’s different. See this.

| May 2, 2024

One of those movies so emotionally expansive that while watching it you feel like it might contain the whole of human experience.

| Mar 28, 2024

Yang has graced us with a thought-provoking film about the uncertainties awaiting us in the span of a lifetime.

| Apr 20, 2023

For three hours, the film observes its sprawling family with a quiet tenderness.

| Nov 24, 2020

This finely observed three-hour film follows three generations of a modern Taipei family through a year that's marked by loss and by the realization of life's shortcomings...

| Sep 16, 2020

Yang thoughtfully balances disparate characters' intricate stories to represent anatomies of society. The effect is both gentle and profound.

| Feb 28, 2019

Yi Yi has space for everyone.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2019

Rather than the typical inciting incident of a film's typical narrative structure, Yang's screenplay builds its story organically, painting a portrait of flawed, tender humans.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 23, 2018

I felt like I had lived it, and not just because of its nearly three-hour runtime.

Full Review | May 1, 2017

Blending the Coen Brothers' karmic rubicon with Robert Altman's ensemble heart, "Yi Yi" scratches the identifiable itch to reach out for what we've loved, set free and had come back, perhaps still not meant to be: jobs, lovers, freedoms, opportunities.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 15, 2010

One of the best films of the decade, Yi Yi, Edward Yang's most accessible (and very last) film is a fluent, charming and precise family portrait that celebrates ordinary life with all its joys and chaos.

| Original Score: A | Dec 29, 2009

A heartfelt and involving family drama to which even the most subtitle-wary moviegoer could relate.

| Aug 21, 2009

Every beat and every image and every cut and every note feels like a part of a whole. It is a total movie.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 31, 2008

Yang takes the long view, transforming the ingredients of family melodrama into a serene, generous, comic vision of our tangled urban lives.

| Mar 31, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The final moments left me thunderstruck, as deeply moved as I've ever been by a film. Yi Yi accumulates moments of truth and insight until it glows with importance.

| Original Score: A+ | Jan 15, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2004

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 19, 2003

'With numerous plotlines that move from middle-aged longing and teen romance to cutthroat business, Yang has created a deeply moving examination of a home in turmoil.'

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 89/100 | Dec 31, 2002