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Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare, unchecked heartache of Yasujiro Ozu. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Eccentric, haunting and resonant. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: At times, Tsai's approach makes viewing this film like watching paint dry, but what a sublime design it makes. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A rare film that actually expands and deepens in the memory when its time on screen has run out. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: An art piece in which everything seems to be a metaphor for something else, and as pleasing as it is to watch, it's too pretentious by half. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mr. Tsai is a very original artist in his medium, and What Time Is It There? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What Time Is It There? is not easy. It haunts you, you can't forget it, you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while watching it. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: It's the kind of leap a director makes when he has become so sure of the techniques and themes that have preoccupied him that he seems unable to make a wrong move. Read more

Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle: The weight of the film's opaque, numbingly studied details ... is oppressive. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Tsai Ming-liang's witty, wistful new film, What Time Is It There?, is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly. Read more