Youth
China Lion Film Distribution | Release Date: December 15, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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80
The Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiDec 14, 2017
Youth is a whirl of grand, dramatic gestures. Read full review
80
VarietyMaggie LeeDec 14, 2017
Feng employs traditional craftsmanship to draw a sweeping historical canvas with profound human upheavals that mirror virtues and flaws of the Chinese people, without ever losing sight of the personal experiences that he dramatizes with such acute sensuality. Read full review
80
CineVueChristopher Machell
Youth is as sentimental as it is accomplished, but Xiaogang's mastery both of broad sweep and intimate detail proves an impressive feat. Read full review
75
Washington PostMark Jenkins
The film’s themes mature from adolescent pettiness to adult regret, with several epilogues set well after the main events of the story. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangDec 14, 2017
If our understanding of the losses these characters have suffered feels incomplete, it’s hard to come away entirely unaffected as these men and women look back at their young adulthood and the whirlwind of historical change against which it played out. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn Kenny
As a straight, sentimental melodrama, Youth works well. While there are a lot of conventional tropes, the cast enacts them with such fresh, tenderhearted sincerity that they regain some power. Read full review
60
Screen DailyAllan HunterDec 14, 2017
Galloping across the decades, the film becomes increasingly sketchy and superficial. There is so much detail and substance in the 1970s stretch of this epic that the twists of fate and rueful reflections of later years inevitably feel less authentic and closer to soap opera. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsDec 15, 2017
The filmmakers over-extend themselves to solicit empathy for their doomed protagonists. Youth is so unbearably nice that I eventually wished it were remade by misanthropes. Read full review
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