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Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: Read more
Sara Cardace, New York Magazine/Vulture: Ignore the incomprehensible storyline and soak in the melancholy mood of Wong's ethereal vision. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: For this director's cut, Wong has trimmed several minutes and reorganized the narrative according to the passage of seasons, though the plot is still impenetrable. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: The reworked version is a visual feast, even if the human dimension seems somewhat shortchanged. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Provides a fascinating glimpse down a path perhaps advisedly not taken. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I struggled to engage with the archetypes contained within the images, even with all that meticulously restored golden-yellow sand. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Ashes of Time Redux is primarily a sensory experience that deserves to be seen on as big a screen as possible. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Wong's reworking hasn't made Ashes more coherent, but it's still a gorgeous enigma. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Only in its final scenes do the usual WKW themes emerge in full bloom, but purists shouldn't miss it. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The film has all the visual flourishes we expect of Doyle and Wong, and they're reason enough to see Ashes of Time Redux. Just don't expect to make sense of the plot. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: One feels the passionate intensity of the filmmaker in every strand of his luminously intricate narrative. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Wong Kar Wai seems considerably more out of his depth than other Chinese filmmakers who have slummed in the martial arts genre. This can't compare to Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin or Yimou Zhang's House of Flying Daggers. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Shot by Wong's longtime cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, Ashes is dreamy and splendid and definitely deserves to be seen on the big screen. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Wong Kar-Wai doesn't supply much of a plot with a narrative engine to pull us through. Read more
Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: Elliptical, sweeping, lovely and thoroughly confusing, Ashes of Time Redux is not a film to rent. It's well worth paying to see it on the big screen. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Martial-arts fans may find themselves disappointed, but Wong Kar-wai addicts will be delighted. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The kicks are more to the head and heart than to the body. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Ashes of Time remains less an example of early Asia Extreme than one of Asia Extremely Confusing. But Wong's strength has always been his use of screen sensuality, and this colorful revision ups the expressionism to dizzying heights. Read more
Michelle Orange, Village Voice: In a move that would become his trademark, Wong rejects the happy ending for the almost ecstatically sad, making your heart soar even as he tells you, essentially, that it's impossible, all of it -- that it'll never work. Read more
John Anderson, Washington Post: With apologies to all the flat-screen salesmen and mail-order movie companies, it isn't a film to be seen anywhere but on the largest screen available. Read more