Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Wellspring Media | Release Date: September 17, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Hollywood ReporterRichard James Havis
An elegy for the days when Taiwan was a major East Asian film production center. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This is a funny, sad, stunningly smart movie about the end of movies, made in Tsai's inimitable, unblinking style. No movie lover should miss it. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
For all its minimalism, Tsai Ming-liang's 81-minute masterpiece manages to be many things at once. Read full review
90
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence. Read full review
90
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Has a quiet, cumulative magic, whose source is hard to identify. Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of mystery and feeling; it's an action movie that stands perfectly still. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
A droll gem that celebrates movie love with feeling and deadpan humor. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell. A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It could all be done much more efficiently, but any other approach would lose Tsai's unique mix of stone-faced comedy and dewy-eyed lyricism. Read full review
80
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Tsai Ming-Liang always makes you feel that there's a world of life beyond his movies -- a world populated by ghosts that are as real as we are. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Parkinson
Wry and haunting. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A loving tribute to cinema by Tsai Ming-liang, one of Taiwan's most accomplished and popular directors. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
At once an elegy for the communal experience of cinema-going and another quintessentially Tsai portrait of loneliness and isolation. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
An idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is funny and moody. Read full review
70
VarietyDavid Rooney
This feels like short film material stretched exasperatingly thin but nonetheless casts a certain sad spell, graced by moments of droll observational humor. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineEthan Alter
Though the film's deliberate pace is sometimes frustrating, it casts a quietly powerful spell and the memory of its images lingers provocatively long after they've flickered into darkness. Read full review
70
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Tsai's film is not free of longueurs, but like much modern work in almost every field, these stretches are deliberate assaults on conventional expectation. Read full review
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