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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 09 May 2014

It's a strikingly shot picture with some genuine dramatic weight, but as an overall piece of understanding, the movie leaves too much obscured,…

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By Alan Bett (21) for The Skinny (809) on 07 May 2014

This major work is cinematic in scope but loses none of the provocative truth that defines Zhangke's oeuvre…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 04 Apr 2014

I can't imagine a comparable American movie, militating passionately, lyrically over on the economic inequities of American life. It just isn't done…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 13 Jan 2014

Jia shows the new China as a venal,impossibly corrupt place where the downtrodden millions are almost as maltreated, and just as hopeless,…

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By T'cha Dunlevy (129) for Montreal Gazette (210) on 10 Jan 2014

Part nuanced social commentary, part brutal action flick, auteur Jia Zhangke's seventh film takes a multi-pronged approach to a complex topic…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Jan 2014

Jia is passionate about his characters, but that never compromises his considerable artistic control…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 03 Jan 2014

This masterwork is set in contemporary China, where the gulf between those able to maneuver (or manipulate) the country's economies of change…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Movie Habit (892) on 02 Jan 2014

Courageous and unsparing in its view of contemporary China…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Jan 2014

Jia is passionate about his characters, but that never compromises his considerable artistic control…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 23 Dec 2013

A film that could only be made by a fearless director fully aware of his powers, and unafraid to grapple with ideas that might break him…

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By Bill Stamets (145) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Nov 2013

A Touch of Sin is humanist critique of the country’s turn to capitalism…

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By John Defore (1,351) for Washington Post (9,851) on 22 Nov 2013

Some sequences...depict gunplay that wouldn’t be out of place in a conventional crime film…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Nov 2013

Jia's primary concern here is the solitary suffering of his characters, punished to the point where they can't take anymore…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 12 Nov 2013

It’s a harrowing and impressive accomplishment (especially considering potential government censorship), and it shows how, in its mad rush…

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By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 31 Oct 2013

Although [Jia's] film is panoramic in settings and quasi-encyclopedic in styles, it unrolls as a single picture, sweeping, fluid and mesmerizingly…

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By James Adams (62) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 17 Oct 2013

Epic and intimate, A Touch of Sin finally feels as big and complex, as contradictory and sad as, well, China…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 16 Oct 2013

Fists are raised, pistols are cocked and knives are brandished in Jia Zhangke's dystopian and throbbing take on modern China…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 16 Oct 2013

In addressing the two-pronged beast of westernization / corruption, Jia gives us a multipronged and engrossing set of plots…

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By Dave White (762) for Linoleum Knife (40) on 16 Oct 2013

In [Jia's] sorrowful vision of Life Right Now, everything on screen follows the jagged line of trickle-down cruelty, one where the bottom isn't…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 Oct 2013

A Touch of Sin, the powerful if uneven new film by highly regarded Chinese director Jia Zhangke, is a corrosive depiction of the New China…

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