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

Full Review | May 1, 2017

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

Life-affirming in the most genuine, respectful and least mechanical sense.

Full Review | May 21, 2001

The artistry is undeniable -- tough insights blended with graceful compassion, gloomy certainties flecked with rays of hope.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 14, 2001

A marvel of delicacy and humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 8, 2001

A humanistic masterwork.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 2, 2001

This intimate family portrait peels away layer after layer of unspoken truth and hidden life.

Full Review | Apr 26, 2001

Intricately nuanced, lovingly crafted ... and decidedly wry in tone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2001

Fans of this kind of novel-like storytelling will find the movie a real treat.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 9, 2001

Keenly observed.

Full Review | Mar 22, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 5, 2001

Chances are, you'll watch most of it with a smile on your face, and you'll miss these characters when it's over.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2001

Only rarely is a film this observant and tender about the ups and downs of daily existence.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2001

An amazing experience: as if a 온라인카지노추천 soap opera, packed with the usual catastrophes, were done with unaccustomed depth and real storytelling genius.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2001

Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view.

| Feb 7, 2001

Full of nice small moments that add up to a deeper whole.

Full Review | Jan 19, 2001

Looks at one middle-class family in transition -- and does so with such a kind and probing eye that we all see our lives reflected through Yang's lens.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 19, 2001

Irritating, indulgent and self-important.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2001

In its low-key way, Yi Yi presents an intelligent, profound and at times heartrending slice of Taiwanese middle-class existence.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2001

A lucid, elegant, nuanced, humorous melodrama that orchestrates a soap opera season's worth of family crises with a virtuoso discretion.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2001