Green Dragon 2001

Critics score:
61 / 100

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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [A] strong and touching film. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Times: Drives for the same kind of bittersweet, conciliatory tone that Three Seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety, it dives into soapy bathos. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A gracious, eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: An honest, sensitive story from a Vietnamese point of view. Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Earnest, unsubtle and Hollywood-predictable, Green Dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of Vietnamese. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Plays as hollow catharsis, with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A conventional but heartwarming tale. Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos, particularly where Whitaker's misfit artist is concerned. Read more