Wo hu cang long 2000

Critics score:
97 / 100

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: One of those wonders of imagination and craft that confirm your wildest dreams about the magic of movies. Read more

Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: Once in a great while, a movie engages us so thoroughly that we slip the surly bonds of Earth and experience a rare moment of transcendence. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is such a movie. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: By tapping into responses so primal they feel like magic, Lee's movie reminds you that the medium is never more powerful than when it makes myth feel fresh and new. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: You need a roadmap to find the hidden masterpiece. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: So good, it reminds you how the best films transport you to another world. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: With its gift for showing things that can't be described, Crouching Tiger's blend of the magical, the mythical and the romantic fills a need in us we might not even realize we had. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Even nonfans of martial-arts movies will want to cheer the fight scenes, which are sheer visual poetry. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: A near-masterpiece, replete with marvelously fanciful images and a touching love story. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger makes up for the disappointment of Phantom Menace. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It's abundantly clear that Lee, in conjunction with fight choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping (famed for The Matrix), has brought to these standard tropes his own elevating, near-feline sensibilities. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's rare to find a film that satisfies our craving for pop while giving us the transcendence of poetry. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: The first fight scene, which brings all the principals together, will make you want to applaud. And each action sequence builds on what has come before, increasing the stakes with a dignified hilarity. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film never ceases to dazzle our eyes and arrest our attention. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The most exhilarating martial arts movie I have seen. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: A movie that casts a flickering spell from the very outset, not with colorful excess but with restraint. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: The class act of action movies. Read more

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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: High art meets high spirits in a rapturously romantic epic that really kicks butt. Read more

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Todd McCarthy, Variety: It's pulp fiction presented in a grand, knowingly humorous style distinguished by star power, a strong female slant and the latest in stunts and effects. Read more

Amy Taubin, Village Voice: Despite scrupulous attention to expository detail, Lee fails to dramatize the conflict within Jen, or any of the characters. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Lee has made more than an exotic yarn. He has liberated conventional moviemaking. Read more