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

  • 88
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    A twisty, spectacular farce. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion A.V. Club | Keith Phipps

    Though it's a stylistic change from what Zhang's been up to lately, this isn't entirely new territory for him. Read full review

  • 80
    Arizona Republic | Richard Nilsen

    As the film comes to an end, more and more of "Blood Simple" is translated directly to China, even to the last drop. Read full review

  • 80
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    Alternately comic and terrifying, "Woman/Gun/Noodle" is a dazzling act of transliteration that may not require knowledge of the original film. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie "Blood Simple." Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    The result of Zhang's experimental theater will be a rich brew for some, weak tea for others - a divide that will largely depend on your taste for a blend that is lighter on the subtext and heavier on the slapstick. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Western audiences familiar with "Blood Simple" will get a kick out of the reinventions. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | Nick Pinkerton

    Those with a higher tolerance for bumptious jestering-from a yipping and mincing Xiao, or Cheng Ye as a bucktoothed jelly-belly-may, however, cry Masterpiece. They are instructed to seek out the longer Chinese cut, which apparently packs in more such interminable shtick, broad as the Yangtze. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    I will say that the attempt to reinterpret the memorable closing shot of "Blood Simple" is so gauche and graceless that I involuntarily moaned in disgust. I docked the film another half-star just for that. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    I wish I could say that the film is half as intriguing as it sounds, but A Woman, a Gun... lacks the Coen brothers' precision, their diabolical game-board cleverness. It's a remake in shaggy outline only. Read full review

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