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By Joshua Tanzer (113) for Offoffoff (113) on 10 Mar 2003

Bogs down badly as we absorb Jia's moody, bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance…

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By Richard James Havis (225) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 26 Feb 2003

Formally ambitious and emotionally engaging…

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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 13 Dec 2002

It helps that the central performers are experienced actors, and that they know their roles so well…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 02 Dec 2002

The asylum material is gripping, as are the scenes of Jia with his family…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 22 Nov 2002

Ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Oct 2002

If Quitting isn't worthy of affection exactly, it's worthy of respect…

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By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 19 Sep 2002

It's downbeat material and it tends to drag a bit, but Jia's performance is so unsparing and intense -- and the film so compassionate and chaste…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 19 Sep 2002

Quitting delivers a sucker-punch, and its impact is all the greater beause director Zhang's last film, the cuddly Shower, was a non-threatening…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 18 Sep 2002

Once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy, the film becomes predictably conventional…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 12 Sep 2002

It may not be as cutting, as witty or as true as back in the glory days of Weekend and Two or Three Things I Know About Her, but who else engaged…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 11 Sep 2002

If Mr. Zhang's subject matter is, to some degree at least, quintessentially American, his approach to storytelling might be called Iranian…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Sep 2002

Daring and complex…

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By David Ehrenstein (46) for New Times (467) on 11 Sep 2002

Daring and beautifully made, Zhang Yang's Quitting plays like a Chinese Rebel Without a Cause…

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