Pavilion of Women 2001

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Its clumsiness turns it, against its best intentions, into half-baked operatic kitsch. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Plays as little more than a dated potboiler for all its backdrop of impending chaos and wrenching change. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: All the peripheral drama in the world can't generate interest in a film with so little sense of melodramatic proportion. Read more

Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle: A whole lot of bombast and phony exaltation in the name of entertaining enrichment. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: Gets bogged down in enough 'event' to choke a miniseries. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: In many ways, this is the East Asian equivalent of the old Europudding productions, where international players have created something that's more cacaphonous than melodious. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Yim's cluttered gala is fairly swollen with cliche, dead air, and dialogue mold. Read more

Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: An instant antique. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Suggests a sudsy version of The King and I without forceful personalities or fancy production numbers. Read more