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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: It's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits. If only it had the story to match. Read more
Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune: The movie is gorgeously made, but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to Mr. Wong's In the Mood for Love -- very much a Hong Kong movie despite its mainland setting. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing, while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Assured, vital and well wrought, the film is, arguably, the most accomplished work to date from Hong Kong's versatile Stanley Kwan. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Lan Yu is at times too restrained, yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most American love stories look downright unfree. Read more
Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: There is much that is touching in the affair of Lan Yu and Handong. Read more
David Chute, L.A. Weekly: A beautifully crafted love story that should stand as a career breakthrough for the subtle Hong Kong stylist Stanley Kwan. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Pulpy and mesmerizing. Read more
John Terauds, Toronto Star: In the end, we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love, Chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Kwan is a master of shadow, quietude, and room noise, and Lan Yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie. Read more