Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Bond. James Bond. Those three words are so powerful, they scared off all other contenders at the weekend box office. The 22nd adventure in the James Bond franchise, "Quantum of Solace," delivers some strong action sequences and Daniel Craig's brooding performance at 007. It's not as good as "Casino Royale," the last Bond movie, in part because it ties itself too closely to the previous chapter
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Ashes of Time Redux Director Wong Kar-Wai has always married gorgeous images, moody heartbreak and convoluted storytelling -- and this new re-editing of his
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
In Hollywood, directors used to earn their stripes by tackling that archetypal American genre, the Western. In China and Japan, martial arts epics fill that bill.
No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Dead Poets Society When you're 15, you think, "A movie about boys in boarding school in the 1950s? Sign me up!" What you don't realize is that you're getting into some serious coming-of-age, mega-loads of teen dude angst and super-cute...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
'Ashes of Time Redux' {4stars} Like an Akira Kurosawa film processed through a kaleidoscope, Ashes of Time (1994) was Wong Kar-wai's third film, by which time it was clear that he was going to pass off hallucinations as motion pictures. ''Ashes'' was the Hong Kong director's audacious attempt to re-imagine the martial-arts epic. (R - 93 minutes) V.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
The reinvention that is Ashes of Time Redux proudly presents itself as a paradox: a martial arts movie by Wong Kar-wai, the action-averse Hong Kong auteur. The kicks are more to the head and heart than to the body.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Time changes all but this picture's sumptuous beauty
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
In Hollywood, directors used to earn their stripes by tackling that archetypal American genre, the Western. In China and Japan, martial-arts epics fill that bill.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
'Basically, it's like you have a car, and you have to dismantle the car, but then it takes five years to reassemble," says Wong Kar Wai, who, in fact, is not talking about a car. He is discussing his 1994 release, the swirling martial arts reverie Ashes of Time.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
"Ashes of Time Redux," starring Maggie Cheung and the late Leslie Cheung, is Wong Kar Wai's extensively reworked version of his only martial-arts movie. Music, editing and Christopher Doyle's cinematography have all been revised, and the images are very nearly everything.
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Forced underground by heartbreak, a cynic's romantic nature can flourish into a sort of private dementia. You can take my weary word for it, or you can take Wong Kar-wai's, whose restored 1994 Ashes of Time Redux gorgeously sets up the paradox he has returned to throughout his caree...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Drama. Starring Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Jacky Cheung. Directed by Wong Kar Wai. (Not rated. 93 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Elliptical, sweeping, lovely and thoroughly confusing, "Ashes of Time Redux" is not a film to...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Wong Kar-wai has just debuted the "definitive" version of his 1994 film "Ashes of Time," and to celebrate the occasion, he took a few minutes to discuss the project with IGN Movies.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Six months after he went all gooey over America in My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-Wai returns packing a re-tooled cut of
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Wong Kar Wai's redux, with a few slight changes from his 1994 classic, is a feast for the eyes, if a little difficult to follow.
