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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: This is one of the major disappointments of the film-going year. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Like the two opposing forces in the title, the book and the film compliment and balance each other; each is, in its way, a rich experience. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A freeze-dried story has been only partially defrosted. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Overwrought and overlong, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution nevertheless has some moments of exquisite beauty and a potentially star-making performance from newcomer Tang Wei. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Conceptually, Lust, Caution has been thoroughly thought-through, down to every lipstick stain Wei leaves on her teacups. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Lust, Caution is a disappointment coming from director Ang Lee, but it's a watchable one, and it rattles around in your head for a long time after you've seen it, as much for what it does right as for where it goes wrong. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A brooding meditation on the unnerving power and terrible cost of emotional and political masquerades, the Chinese-language Lust, Caution gets under your skin with its examination of what qualifies as love and what does not. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A quietly compelling drama of hidden desperation and fierce passions. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Ang Lee's uneven new film is a bit like a Chinese variant on Paul Verhoeven's The Black Book. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Mixing a stately pace with bursts of raw violence and blunt eroticism, Lust, Caution indeed deftly blends those two attitudes. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Lust, Caution wants us to feel the erotic ping of buttoned-up people ripping open those buttons, but too often it's the film's drama that's under wraps. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Overly extended adaptation of a short story about a female Chinese nationalist who uses sex to compromise and trap a cruel Japanese collaborator. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: What lingers is the suspicion that women carry a burden of war they can't ever put down, and that even noble idealists can justify turning their girls into whores. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: In the broad strokes and beautiful particularity of its bittersweet love story, Lust, Caution could not come from any other place but China. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: If Paul Verhoeven hadn't produced Black Book last year, Lust, Caution would have seemed like its own subgenre, the eroto-feminist spy thriller. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: For all its hothouse passions and sometimes brutally explicit sex scenes, the storytelling seems curiously stolid, the style too movie-ish for its own good. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: By the time [Lee] gets to the lust, it is too late to throw caution to the winds. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Like Lee's other films, Lust, Caution grows out of a tension between essence and form -- between a person's emotions and the role he or she must play. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Yes, the movie is called Lust, Caution. But what it really needed to be about was incautious love. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: There is plenty of lust exercised in the athletic, don't-try-this-at-home sex scenes between Hong Kong star Tony Leung and the stunning Chinese newcomer Wei Tang. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: I was struggling to stay awake. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Lust, Caution is one of the few honestly observant political films, totally devoid of retrospective feel-good propaganda. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It's positively amazing how boring so much sex can be when it subs for character development and compelling narrative. Read more
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: A rich, beautifully detailed espionage thriller that captures the bygone days of Shanghai -- and 1940s Hollywood noirs' romantic evocations of same. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Aided by the nuanced, forceful performances of his two leads, [Ang Lee] has made Lust, Caution something to be seen and savored. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The nature of the sex is Lee's subject, and he is too honest to suppress that. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The sex scenes -- intense, affecting and emotionally raw -- are the best thing about this frustratingly limp movie. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Stylized and visually arresting, with intense sex scenes that earned the film an NC-17 rating, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution is an immersion into another time, place and mentality. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Both a cannily constructed spy thriller and a grim kind of love story. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's 158 minutes long, and worth every languorous second. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Intellectually, emotionally, Lust, Caution is all palette and no canvas -- it's an epic on a postage stamp. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's a masterpiece of tangled allegiances and corrupted innocence, equating sexual intimacy with the search for a person's soul. There's no guarantee the discovery will bring joy. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Why does this hot-and-heavy love story feel so cold and clipped overall? Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: Lust, Caution asks some patience of us, but our patience pays off. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: There is deception, suspicion and self-delusion, but it all seems rendered at arm's length, despite the consummate artistry of the filmmaking. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: ...it's amazing how something so cold is expected to generate so much heat. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: In a film where casting is a vital component in the edgy equation, Leung and Tang make a picturesque and dramatically compelling couple. Read more