- , Time Out, February 09, 2006
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 19, 2004
The smartest and smartest-looking action movie of the year.
- Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News, July 19, 2003
It's abundantly clear that Lee, in conjunction with fight choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping (famed for The Matrix), has brought to these standard tropes his own elevating, near-feline sensibilities.
- Rick Groen, Globe and Mail, April 25, 2003
- Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons, October 30, 2001
Chow reveals astonishing depths. But the revelation is Yeoh.
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone, June 04, 2001
- Stephen Teo, Senses of Cinema, May 30, 2001
It's rare to find a film that satisfies our craving for pop while giving us the transcendence of poetry.
- Peter Rainer, New York Magazine, May 21, 2001
You may never see a more beautiful movie - and certainly no more majestic film has yet been made.
- William Gallagher, BBC, April 16, 2001
High art meets high spirits in a rapturously romantic epic that really kicks butt.
- Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine, February 07, 2001
- Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News, February 07, 2001
You need a roadmap to find the hidden masterpiece.
- David Edelstein, Slate, February 07, 2001
It's The Matrix spliced with David Lean
- Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine, February 07, 2001
By tapping into responses so primal they feel like magic, Lee's movie reminds you that the medium is never more powerful than when it makes myth feel fresh and new.
- Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star, January 12, 2001
One of those wonders of imagination and craft that confirm your wildest dreams about the magic of movies.
- Susan Stark, Detroit News, January 12, 2001
It is poetry in motion, a dreamwork.
- Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee, January 12, 2001
So good, it reminds you how the best films transport you to another world.
- Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 11, 2001
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger makes up for the disappointment of Phantom Menace.
- Steven Rosen, Denver Post, December 22, 2000
Even nonfans of martial-arts movies will want to cheer the fight scenes, which are sheer visual poetry.
- Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle, December 22, 2000
The class act of action movies.
- Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22, 2000
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