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By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 01 Sep 2013

bears all the extravagant style perfectionist filmmaker Wai can muster, but suffers from a sketchy biography that lurches along…

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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 30 Aug 2013

The Grandmaster is just that --- grand --- and masterful. Wong Kar Wai's odyssey has paid off handsomely…

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By Donald J. Levit (489) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 29 Aug 2013

The cinema confusion that persists here would be acceptable, for this is after all chop-socky with pretentions, but the deadpan solemnity makes…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Aug 2013

More impressive than its flurry of fists is its sleight of hand, the misdirection that perhaps conceals for some the truth that this is not…

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By Jay Stone (286) for Canada.com (402) on 29 Aug 2013

[Wong Kar-wai] is a stylish filmmaker who has created an operatic story out of Ip Man's difficult life, and a ballet out of the many action sequences…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Movie Habit (892) on 29 Aug 2013

Visually beautiful Grandmaster will sweep you away…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Aug 2013

He's typically more show than tell, but The Grandmaster -- charting a largely chronological course and plodgy with pedantic title cards that…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 29 Aug 2013

It ranks with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers as one of the most elegant and beautiful martial-arts films…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Aug 2013

What's on screen in The Grandmaster is off-puttingly disjointed, but it's also dazzling in its startling action and ravishing romance…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 29 Aug 2013

I still consider my Grandmaster experience incomplete for now. And it's a testament to how much quality still remains that I want to complete it…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 29 Aug 2013

The Grandmaster doesn't stint on the action, but also highlights the inherent serenity at the heart of all worthwhile martial arts…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 29 Aug 2013

Wong Kar Wai is an expressionist master. A master of character - deep, rich, truthful character - especially in The Grandmaster, he is not…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 29 Aug 2013

The Grandmaster can feel stiff at times, and something is doubtlessly lost in translation…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 29 Aug 2013

[W]e watch this version of The Grandmaster not for what it is but what might be…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

The film is beautiful but troubled, achieving in stretches the director's signature dreamy mood but dragged down by narrative confusions…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 28 Aug 2013

Writer-director Wong Kar-wai has made a martial-arts movie that is truly a work of art. His The Grandmaster is a picture of staggering beauty…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 28 Aug 2013

It's a terrific film, and it's a lot of fun…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 28 Aug 2013

The Grandmaster sets aside traditional story structure in its last 15 minutes and becomes one of the filmmaker’s free-form visual poems,…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

Beautiful but troubled, achieving in stretches the director's signature dreamy mood but dragged down by narrative confusions…

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By Bill Stamets (145) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Aug 2013

The elegant style of the fighting sequences does more than display camera and kung fu technique — this style also shows fighters living with honor…

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