Millennium Mambo
Palm Pictures | Release Date: December 31, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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100
Film ThreatPhil Hall
This extraordinary work of cinematic art is among the most sublime, compelling and beautifully crafted films to grace the big screen. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This is a great companion piece to Hou's masterly "Flowers of Shanghai" and fresh evidence of his status as Taiwan's greatest filmmaker. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
Cause for celebration. It's not only a cracking good film, but it is the first by Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien to gain a national (though limited) release. Read full review
88
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The film is dark, both literally and figuratively. Only at the very end do we get a glimpse of the sun. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Millennium Mambo is a resolutely minor work, so enveloped in ennui that it never gets past the surface of things. But those surfaces are remarkable. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyJohn Powers
Jean-Luc Godard famously declared that all it takes to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Both turn up in Millennium Mambo, a ravishing bauble about la dolce vita in Taiwan, but frankly, the gun's an afterthought. This is a movie about the girl. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
If Millennium Mambo is the only chance to see Hou Hsaio-hsien's work at a movie theater, you'd better take it. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Not much happens on the surface of Hou Hsiao Hsien's latest film...Nevertheless, it can break your heart. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
There's wonderful promise in Hou's attempt to make a movie about the kind of woman who's usually part of the scenery. Read full review
60
The New York TimesElvis Mitchell
Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
In a sense, Millennium Mambo is a mildly prurient portrait of Shu moving, drinking, smoking, and changing clothes -- it's analogous to one of Andy Warhol's Edie Sedgwick films, but without the existential drama. Who really cares what costume this poor girl will wear to all tomorrow's parties? Read full review
40
VarietyDerek Elley
A slow, empty, over-mannered snoozer that shows Taiwanese helmer Hou Hsiao-hsien asleep at the wheel. Read full review
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