Jiao you 2014

Guy Lodge, Variety: Spends an inordinate amount of time watching its characters sleep onscreen - which is just as well, since unsuspecting viewers may spend an inordinate amount of time sleeping in front of it. Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: Tsai's latest is small and human and primal-a howl from the gutter, and a survival story about life on the fringe, in which a family of four ekes out an existence one day and scavenged meal at a time. Read more

Jake Cole, Film.com: If this is Tsai Ming-Liang's last film, he's leaving the cinema farther along than he found it. Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: The director's austere minimalism has always been suspended between the mesmerizing and the distancing, and in his latest feature, the concentration on elliptical observation, mood and texture signals an almost complete rejection of narrative. Read more

Tomas Hachard, NPR: In its most evocative moments offers images that will stick in your mind even longer than they stay on the screen. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: [A] glum, humorless exercise in Asian miserablism ... Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Stray Dogs really starts to come alive in its second half, when... the family-of-outcasts narrative tips completely into the slippery realm of the avant-garde. Read more

Danny King, Village Voice: An extreme, compassionate magnification of the minutiae of second-to-second existence (brushing teeth, counting money). Read more