Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.
100
USA TodayMike Clark
USA TodayMike Clark
This is a great movie, but it needs a sales job because it's in Mandarin.
100
New York PostJonathan Foreman
New York PostJonathan Foreman
You have never seen a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because there has never been a movie like it.
100
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Ang Lee, a world-class director working at the top of his elegant form, has done something thrilling. For all the leaping action, it's the film's spirit that soars.
100
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Rarely has combat been portrayed as beautifully as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Taiwanese director Ang Lee's thoughtful meditation on menace, mortality and the martial arts.
90
VarietyTodd McCarthy
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun.
The picture is more fun than it has a right to be.
90
SlateDavid Edelstein
SlateDavid Edelstein
My first viewing left me dazzled but slightly confused; a second deeply impressed; a third rhapsodic. I wish I hadn't needed to rediagram it in my head to turn it into the masterpiece it so obviously wants to be.