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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Still Life is the first great film of the year. It's beautiful but so much more--full of subtle feeling, framed by a monstrous, eroding landscape. Read more
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture: More than any other director, the extraordinarily gifted Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke has a talent for locating the future in the present day. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: An extraordinary glimpse into the psychology, subtext and austere reality of modern Chinese culture. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: More than a million people have been displaced in central China in the cause of generating electrical power to meet the needs of the future; Jia's flowing river of a picture washes over a few of them as they adjust to life's currents in the present. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Simply one of the best films of last year, this year, or any year likely to come. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: The results are exhilarating, expertly choreographed and a movie to change one's view of both cinema and life. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Despite all this desolation and depression, Still Life is an extremely beautiful movie: the river and the green mountains on both sides of it extend into the distance in majestic panoply; gray clouds hang over the scene like painted backdrops. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: These searches are not particularly suspenseful or emotionally stirring, but they're excuse enough for us to take in the breath-taking views of Three Gorges, the river and the razing of buildings along its banks. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Both a docudrama with obvious social and historical relevance and a subtle, slow, quietly powerful chronicle of human loss. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Never has destruction looked more beautiful than the demolished buildings in Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: Jia Zhang-ke is a new auteur making his mark. Embraced abroad on the international festival circuit, if less welcome on screens in China, this writer-director works in a genre that could be called globalist. Read more
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: Spare, motionless and silent as a still-life painting. But what [director] Jia is documenting is nothing less than a civilization in a state of flux. Chaos wouldn't be an overstatement. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Nothing much actually happens in Still Life, and yet one is left with a deep feeling of irrevocable loss and destructive change only heightened by the chirpy tourist patter and government promotional talk about the great Three Gorges Dam. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: What's striking about Still Life is its micro-analytical curiosity: Judgment seems suspended -- like the bridge that magically lights up over the Yangtze or the unlikely tightrope walker glimpsed in the movie's last shot. Read more