Saturday Fiction
Strand Releasing | Release Date: April 22, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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60
The New York TimesDevika GirishApr 21, 2022
Star power is a logic unto itself, and Lou has ensured a limitless supply by casting Gong as an actress-spy. She conveys depths of pain and longing even when the script offers none, seducing us as effortlessly as Jean seduces her enemies. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijSep 12, 2019
This moody, black-and-white period piece always intrigues, even if it only intermittently catches fire. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 12, 2019
Mesmeric but frustrating ... An explosive third act shootout may be the most remarkable sequence that Lou has ever shot, but all of the hard-boiled fireworks in the world can’t diminish the feeling that he can’t identify his muse on a canvas this big. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 21, 2022
As convolutedly scripted by Ma Yingli, and pushed around by the restless camerawork, it’s primarily a spotty fusion of spy-story contrivances and diffuse themes of truth and artifice, although the playground is plenty evocative. Read full review
40
Screen DailyJonathan RomneySep 12, 2019
The narrative would be sufficiently daunting to follow if the film didn’t make such heavy play on the thin line between fiction and reality; the frequent blurring between the two Saturday Fictions – Lou Ye’s and Tan Na’s – is muddily executed to begin with, without the play being so unconvincing as a piece of stage drama. Read full review
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