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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    A rare, sumptuous movie treat. Read full review

  • 100
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    The new film lives up to expectations and, indeed, pushes past them into virtually unmapped territory. Read full review

  • 100
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Like Hitchcock, Mr. Wong is at once a voyeur and fetishist par excellence. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    There are many places a visitor may go astray in 2046 -- places where the filmmaker appears to be a bit at loose ends too. Still, Wong's invitation -- ''Let's get lost'' -- is irresistible. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Wong brilliantly blends musical styles and eras to create an intoxicating mood. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Since it is by Wong Kar Wai, 2046 is visually stunning. He uses three cinematographers but one style, that tries to evoke mood more than meaning. The movie as a whole, unfortunately, never seems sure of itself. It's like a sketchbook. These are images, tones, dialogue and characters that Wong is sure of, and he practices them, but he does not seem very sure why he is making the movie, or where it should end. Read full review

  • 60
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    This, too, is a mood piece, sometimes surreal and dominated by Chow's lovelorn sadness. But it's hard to find an emotional or narrative handle to hang on to, since the filmmaker keeps reaching for dramatic energy that keeps eluding him. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Even the art house crowd will find the film off-putting not only because of its vagueness but because of its thoroughly unlikable characters. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It takes what could be called the Chinese equivalent of chutzpah to make a movie with three of the world's most beautiful and talented women -- Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi -- and to be more interested in the male character. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Derek Elley

    The overall effect simply underlines the central weakness of the pic: that the neo-kitschy futuristic scenes don't add much to the real-life '60s relationships. Read full review

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