Old Stone

Name: Old Stone
Genre: Thriller
Released: November 30, 2016
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 72

2016

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: November 30, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: When a drunken passenger causes Lao Shi (Chen Gang) to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, the driver stops to help the injured man. When no police or ambulance arrive he drives the victim to the hospital, checks him in and finds himself liable for the man’s medical bills. The repercussions of Shi’s selfless act expose a society rife withWhen a drunken passenger causes Lao Shi (Chen Gang) to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, the driver stops to help the injured man. When no police or ambulance arrive he drives the victim to the hospital, checks him in and finds himself liable for the man’s medical bills. The repercussions of Shi’s selfless act expose a society rife with bone-chilling callousness and bureaucratic indifference. On the verge of losing his cab, his job and his family, Lao Shi has to resort to desperate measures to survive.… Expand

Director: Johnny Ma

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Clarence Tsui

Dec 8, 2016

Defying its somewhat generic-sounding title, Johnny Ma's gripping criminal thriller Old Stone deploys powerful performances and eerie imagery. Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 8, 2016

[A] stunningly assured, darkly gripping first feature. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Dec 8, 2016

Channeling the style of gritty mainland independent films but without the usual longueurs, the film deftly morphs into a suspense thriller with Dostoevskyan undertones. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Dec 1, 2016

The ending, while not inapt, also delves into a realm of cinematic overstatement that the movie had up until that time been careful to avoid. While disappointing, it doesn’t wholly mitigate the power of what has come before. This is an engrossing and unnerving film. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Dec 3, 2016

Johnny Ma's Old Stone is a lean, nasty entry in a subgenre that could be termed the bureaucratic noir. Read full review

Soren Andersen

Dec 1, 2016

Director Ma has made a quietly merciless picture, a horror movie, really, about a decent man, an ordinary man, left alone, bereft, embittered, ruined by his act of decency. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Nov 29, 2016

It’s too bad that the movie shifts from having too little juice to having too much, because there are hints of a more compelling middle ground. Read full review

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