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By Tomas Hachard (101) for NPR (1,713) on 11 Sep 2014

In its most evocative moments offers images that will stick in your mind even longer than they stay on the screen…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Sep 2014

Until it goes haywire with the cabbage scene, Stray Dogs sustains a hypnotic intensity anchored in exquisite cinematography that portrays the…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Sep 2014

The plight of this struggling family unit weighs more heavily on the heart with each passing minute, making Stray Dogs the rare marathon-length…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 08 Sep 2014

Stray Dogs evokes the whole of Tsai’s filmography, but also pays off his collaboration with Lee, who shows a side of himself that’s been…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 08 Sep 2014

The lengthy final two shots (each running more than ten minutes) rank among the best work this inimitable artist has ever done…

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By Danny King (66) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Sep 2014

An extreme, compassionate magnification of the minutiae of second-to-second existence (brushing teeth, counting money)…

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By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Aug 2014

Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions…

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By Patrick Gamble (128) for CineVue (2,163) on 23 Aug 2014

Tsai's Stray Dogs is a masterpiece of social-realism, a distinctive and beguiling study of society's displaced and marginalised that plays…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Film.com (1,892) on 23 Aug 2014

Stray Dogs pushes Tsai’s cinema of laissez-faire long takes, performative observation and pangs of regret and loss to their extreme…

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By Jamie Dunn (104) for The Skinny (809) on 22 Jun 2014

Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular…

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By Tony Rayns (36) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

Tsai may well be cinema's foremost connoisseur of defeat: the best chronicler we have of the temps mort between social reality and darkly comic…

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By Walter M (1,360) on 17 Feb 2014

Begins with longish takes of a homeless family engaged in mundane tasks. Transitions to a few scenes of peculiar behaviors…

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By Niki G (136) on 16 Feb 2014

Not for the easily bored. Extremely limited narrative; redundant and pointless scenes. Stagnant lensing. I walked out after the first reel…

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By Adrian S (365) on 24 Oct 2013

The portrait of a family in Taiwan that lives in a certain state of decadence. This film will split the audience in half…

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By Will P (196) on 02 Oct 2013

NYFF13. Takes patience to watch but a beautifully composed story of a man with kids struggling to survive and his decomposition…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 15 Sep 2013

Every shot of Stray Dogs has been built with utter formal mastery; every sequence exerts an almost telepathic grip…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2013

The filmmaking here is almost impossibly well-realized, right down to the evocative sound design, adding up to an fairly unforgettable experience…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2013

The director’s austere minimalism has always been suspended between the mesmerizing and the distancing, and in his latest feature, the concentration…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Sep 2013

Tsai here seems to be stripping his ornately eccentric style down to formal fundamentals…

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