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Dominican Rep. Lust, Caution
8,791
Thriller. Drama. Romance
Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a phone call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a ... [+]
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"[Ang] Lee is a true master, and his potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you won't want to break." | POS |
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"I didn't feel the love between the flowering idealist and the ruthless killer. If I did, I would have given the movie four stars. Everything else is wonderful." | POS |
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"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." | NEU |
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"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." | POS |
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"There's too much caution and not enough lust." | POS |
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"Though Lust, Caution has its seeming longueurs, this is a film of deceptive subtlety that springs shut in its final moments like a steel trap (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" | POS |
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"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" | POS |
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"The film looks gorgeous but the plotting is clumsy and the acting is flat." | NEU |
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"It's positively amazing how boring so much sex can be when it subs for character development and compelling narrative." | NEG |
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"A pleasure to watch a film as visually stylish as it is psychologically demanding. I wish it had been twice as long." | POS |
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"Though the performances are strong (especially Leung's), one longs for the depth of emotion of Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the chemistry between Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" | POS |
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"A rich, beautifully detailed espionage thriller that captures the bygone days of Shanghai - and 1940s Hollywood noirs' romantic evocations of same" | POS |
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