Fresh
The film takes on an operatic feel, moving between euphoria for the new and lament for the lost.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
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24 City
Overview
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The director has an exquisite eye that keeps getting stronger and subtler. He trusts that beauty is vagueness's alluring upside.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Rotten
24 City won't change the minds of detractors -- it is his most painfully slow yet -- but it might change the minds of his supporters, including this critic, for Jia attempts something that is, in the end, unforgivable.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
The result is surprisingly engrossing -- even lively, due in part to brief musical numbers inserted amid the interviews.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
Mr. Jia is an artist, one of the most interesting filmmakers working anywhere in the world, and he made his film to bear witness to a way of life while witnesses could still be found.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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