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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
A twisty, spectacular farce. Read full review
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
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
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
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
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
Western audiences familiar with "Blood Simple" will get a kick out of the reinventions. Read full review
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
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
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