Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 8, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
94
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
32
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for. Read full review
100
USA TodayMike Clark
This is a great movie, but it needs a sales job because it's in Mandarin. Read full review
100
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
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
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.
100
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Watching it is a nonstop high.
100
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
It is with gravity and levity and incomparable grace that Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- by light years the best movie of 2000.
100
NewsweekDavid Ansen
At once elegant and sublimely silly, contemplative and gung-ho, balletic and bubble-gum, a rousing action film and an epic love story, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one bursting-at-the-seams holiday gift, beautifully wrapped by the ever-surprising Ang Lee.
100
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year. Read full review
100
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
A spell-binding, engaging and often breathtaking work in which exquisite sets, costumes, photography and music combine with top-notch acting and out-of-this-world fighting scenes.
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Transcends its origins and becomes one of a kind. It's glorious, unashamed escapism and surprisingly touching at the same time. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Splendid, soaringly ambitious Chinese period fantasy.
100
TimeRichard Corliss
Crouching Tiger is contemplative, and it kicks ass. Or put it this way: it's a powerful film and a terrific movie.
100
Film.comPeter Brunette
The landscapes are so gorgeous, the philosophy so richly appealing, the narrative so epically sweeping, and the characters so intense. Read full review
100
Film.comGemma Files
This is a waking dream of truly operatic dimensions. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
The class act of action movies. Read full review
100
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Magnificently nonchalant about its magic. Read full review
90
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The picture is more fun than it has a right to be. Read full review
90
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. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Crouching Tiger's blend of the magical, the mythical and the romantic fills a need in us we might not even realize we had. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The first Ang Lee film I've seen that I've liked without qualification. Read full review
90
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Has the sprawling canvas of an epic and the emotional heat of classical melodrama. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A sweeping romantic epic with a strong feminist backbone, the thoroughly entertaining Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon also happens to boast a generous offering of seriously kick-ass action sequences that make 'The Matrix' seem downright quaint by comparison. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
A masterful synthesis of generic conventions and creative imagination, a sublime amalgam of some of the best tendencies and talent our times have to offer. Read full review
88
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
A soaring, exhilarating fantasy grounded in earthy emotion, Crouching Tiger more than lives up to the hype.
80
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film satisfies on both visceral and emotional levels. Read full review
80
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
Crouching Tiger's dramatic line is so blurry that the central character is only a bystander to the climactic fight between forces of good and evil. Read full review
80
SalonStephanie Zacharek
There's so much dreamy beauty in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that it's almost like a narcotic. Read full review
80
Dallas ObserverAndy Klein
What about Ronny Yu's 1992 masterpiece "The Bride With White Hair," of which Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a decent facsimile? Read full review
80
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Whenever Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon resorts to flying fists or soaring sword battles, the Force is definitely with it.
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The film may be too talky for action-minded viewers and too fantastic for more serious spectators, but it brings appealing twists - including a feminist sensibility - to the venerable martial-arts genre. Read full review
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