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Marta Barber, Miami Herald: Beautiful to look at but aimless as a broken compass. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Watching Sun Zhou's romantic drama Zhou Yu's Train is like reading a poem -- not a great poem, or an entirely clear one, but one that occasionally blooms into beauty, with images that can take the reader's breath away. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: The back-and-forth approach can be confusing, but it doesn't obscure the picture's chief ideas. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: We're too busy trying to figure out who's who and what's what, when we should be ruminating on the multiple implications of an intimate story of love's labors lost. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is one of those languid numbers where slow motion -- and there's lots of it -- is meant to signify poetry, and a line like 'I know my lake is artificial, but it's full of water' is supposed to seem lyrical. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Emerges gradually as a lyrical contemplation of the often ambiguous yet persistent nature of love through an intricate structure that fragments the narrative as it moves back and forth through time. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: By the end of the drowsy journey, the characters are indistinguishable from the scenery. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Much of the rest that goes on in Zhou Yu's Train feels needlessly overinflated. Read more
Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: A dreamy ride worth taking. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: It's classy, delicate whimsy, a testament to the way romantic love, however unsatisfied, continues to drive itself. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: A ticket to this movie is a season's pass on that train -- and you must complete every ride. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I cannot argue with critics who found the film pretentious and inflated, but I somehow enjoyed it for its deification of the female on her endless journey to eventual oblivion. Read more
Dave Kehr, New York Times: Built out of bits and pieces of successful Chinese films of the recent past, this syrupy romance comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: Zhou Yu's Train has its strengths, but it's clearly no bullet train. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A pointlessly convoluted version of a love story that would really be very simple, if anyone in the movie possessed common sense. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Zhou Yu's Train is less than the sum of its very impressive parts, which are scattered on to the screen so haphazardly as to make it nearly impossible to mentally assemble the chronology of the story. Read more
Derek Elley, Variety: Though the pic makes little sense at a concrete level, Sun and his script collabs manage to keep the wispy craft afloat for 90 minutes through sheer cinematic sleight-of-hand. Read more
David Blaylock, Village Voice: The love triangle among pottery maker Zhou Yu (Gong Li), her long-distance poet paramour (Tony Leung Ka Fai), and her fellow traveler (Honglei Sun) devolves from opaque mystery into boring melodramatics and incoherent contrivances. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The effort required at the end of Zhou Yu's Train to sort out exactly what just went down isn't worth the payoff. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A terrific film. Read more