The Dating Game

Name: The Dating Game
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 10, 2025
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 65

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| Release Date: October 10, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 25, 2025

An illuminating look at a superpower in the throes of a burgeoning cultural catastrophe—and of a few of its myriad desperate-for-love men. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Jan 30, 2025

The Dating Game is sustained by the humanity that Du Feng finds in each of the individuals we come to know and understand a little better. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Jan 30, 2025

The colorful, almost exuberant surfaces of Violet Du Feng’s The Dating Game mask a grim, dystopian reality. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jan 30, 2025

A documentary whose strengths and weaknesses all too perfectly reflect the nature of the crisis at its core — a crisis that stems from a vast confluence of geopolitical issues, but expresses itself through the siloed misery of loneliness and longing. Read full review

J. Kim Murphy

Jan 30, 2025

The feature is awkwardly compressed in its portrait of heartache and easily overwhelmed by the political portent of its subject. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Jan 30, 2025

The moments where these reluctant clients open up about their wholesome desires, their dreams of spending their lives with someone they can grow old appreciating, invigorate the unfocused film. The rest of the time is spent whirling around all the fascinating subtopics Feng brushes. Read full review

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