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In the Mood for Love (2001) Rank 4 Reviews
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The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
Probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Heat and passion simmer underneath virtually every shot of In the Mood For Love, which dwells on the meaning imparted by the motions of Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Gorgeous, dripping with texture and sensuality and, well, mood. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
Wong Kar Wai's latest masterpiece is an erotic and visually stunning meditation on the confines of love. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
MovieMartyr.com (Jeremy Heilman)
Like Chabrol's La Ceromonie, it escalates everyday tensions until they became much more realized and pointed feelings. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at MovieMartyr.com (Jeremy Heilman)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
an elegant, poetic exploration of romantic yearning, repressed emotions, and the age-old conflict between tradition-bound behavior and emotional longings ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Stylized, set-designed to the last hair wisp, the film is a mixture of bold devices with delicate understatement that leave a remarkable aftereffect. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
culturevulture.net (Gary Mairs)
Cause for celebration. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at culturevulture.net (Gary Mairs)
New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
The pining here is so graceful that you may be transfixed by it. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
eFilmCritic.com (Greg Muskewitz)
It rivals the impact... Lost Highway [had for me], and is easily one of the best films I have ever seen. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Greg Muskewitz)
Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
Works brilliantly on both an emotional and an intellectual level. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
Movie Magazine International (Moira Sullivan)
Violins tactilely pull at your heartstrings and induce memories of all the unrequited love affairs or unhappy memories you ever had. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Movie Magazine International (Moira Sullivan)
Panorama (Jean-François Vandeuren)
Agençant parfaitement la simplicité de son récit à la complexité de sa mise en scène, Wong Kar Wai nous livre au final un chef-d'%u0153uvre incontestable en son genre. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Panorama (Jean-François Vandeuren)
New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Elegant and deeply sexy in a deliciously restrained way. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
In the Mood for Love is a film sketched almost entirely in suggestion, at once Wong's most deftly cinematic work and his most aloof. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Empire Magazine (Jeffrey S. Wettig)
A genuinely romantic romance and makes for sublime cinema. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Empire Magazine (Jeffrey S. Wettig)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
There may be no more sensual director in the world today than Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
Wong's most accessible film and one of his best. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Although In the Mood for Love isn't in the mood for action, it dazzles with everything but. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Mr. Showbiz (Michael Atkinson)
The movie needs to be seen twice, so that highly developed expectations can be washed away into irrelevance. Then one can see what Wong has done. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Mr. Showbiz (Michael Atkinson)
Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Smolders with more reserved passion than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
The sexiest movie of the year. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Film.com (Peter Brunette)
It's a masterpiece, a sublime tone poem that shows what cinema is capable of when it tries to do more than just tell a story. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Film.com (Peter Brunette)
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
The result is a kind of ultimate romantic film, joining an almost Jamesian sadness and discipline to that extraordinary visual sensibility. It's not the kind of thing you see every day. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
A wondrously perverse movie that not only evokes a lost moment in time but circles around an unrepresentable subject. Mood is the operative word. A love story far more cerebral than it is emotional. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
The film is alive with delicacy and feeling...It's a beauty. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Time (Richard Corliss)
This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Time (Richard Corliss)
LA Weekly (Manohla Dargis)
It is undeniable in its poignancy, an ecstatic vision of what might have been, though as much for its story as for the fact that the whole thing dissolves like a paper fan in rain, an evanescent masterwork. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at LA Weekly (Manohla Dargis)
New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
A love story told from the point of impact, at the heart, and no conventional resolution could be more profound. ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
It is a film that is hard to put out of your mind... ...read the complete In the Mood for Love movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
User Reviews
by Andrew Ellington on April 02, 2009
There are few films that can match internal beauty with visual splendor quite like Wong Kar-Wai ...
by Mauricio Malo "Ci... on September 02, 2008
If you're a real movie fan, this is one of the movies that you must see. This criterion collection edition of this classic is incredible, excelent extras and great package. ...
by Soccer Fan "Socce... on August 18, 2008
This movie is simply enchanting. The director's consummate use of color, the musical score, and the detailed attention to the historical setting -- 60's Hong Kong -- was sublime. The main characters are statuesquely beautiful and Mrs Chan, in ...
by Baking Enthusiast... on June 08, 2008
There are only three romance films I will view time and time again - Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso and In the Mood for Love. To dismiss the third as simply a pointless art house film is, in my opinion, undeserved because I regard it as a prime example of ...
by Charlie C. Fan on January 29, 2008
As many have said, the cinematography is visually stunning and really sets the mood, akin to a smoky jazz club and you're the only one there, except there are no jazz clubs in the movie and there are actually two people... neither of them you. These ...
by Ned "Ned" on January 17, 2008
In the Mood for Love has to be rated one of the best films ever made. The film is a visual feast -the art direction, lighting, sets and most of all the wardrobe are stunning. The story line of two people meeting by chance and how in someway are forced ...
by Rishi Arora "R. A... on January 10, 2008
Hats off to Wong Kar Wai for successfully bringing to screen a brilliantly written poignant romance. Everything from the beautiful Maggie Cheung to the red wall paper in room 2046 makes this DVD worth it. ...
by Ryan Rogers on October 28, 2007
Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love is a beautiful film in every since of the word. From the wonderful performances to the beautiful cinematography, In the Mood for Love is an excllent example of crafty filmmaking. ...
by Balaji Rajam "Wan... on August 11, 2007
Even though this was on the list of my movies to review, it was not on top of the stack. But today I had a conversation with one of my friends about moral high ground. That prompted me to pick this up. ...
by John Farr "The Be... on July 19, 2007
Wong's lush romantic melodrama is an achingly gorgeous homage to unrequited love. Though Chow and Chan are drawn to each other, personal morals and social propriety prevent them from acting on their attraction--a tension Wong exploits masterfully, ...
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