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

  • 100
    Christian Science Monitor | Peter Rainer

    Fan's camera moves sinuously through these people's lives and gives a human face to a national panorama. Read full review

  • 100
    Time Out New York | David Fear

    The attention to visuals is above and beyond what most vrit is capable of; doing double duty as the film's cinematographer, Fan demonstrates a pitch-perfect photojournalistic eye. Read full review

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Fan has visual panache - Last Train Home has some gorgeously composed shots - but he also has something that can't be taught: The patience and understanding to allow a family to tell their heartbreaking story in their own way. Read full review

  • 100
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Mr. Fan's documentary is informed by a melancholy humanism, and finds unexpected beauty in almost unbearably harsh circumstances. It tells the story of a family caught, and possibly crushed, between the past and the future - a story that, on its own, is moving, even heartbreaking. Multiplied by 130 million, it becomes a terrifying and sobering panorama of the present. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's one of those extraordinary films, like "Hoop Dreams," that tells a story the makers could not possibly have anticipated in advance. It works like stunning, grieving fiction. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    This is essential viewing for understanding our world. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The Chinese economic miracle, however, came at a wrenching human cost, one that is beautifully explored in an exceptional documentary called Last Train Home. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    A miniature masterpiece of documentary observation. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Leslie Felperin

    The picture laudably adopts an intimate, personal approach to a subject -- hardworking Chinese garment workers -- that's been covered in more hectoring fashion elsewhere. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice | J. Hoberman

    Everything is edged with desperation. However arduous Last Train Home may have been to shoot, it was infinitely more arduous to live. Read full review

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