Fresh
Stray Dogs really starts to come alive in its second half, when... the family-of-outcasts narrative tips completely into the slippery realm of the avant-garde.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Overview
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Director and cast
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Fresh
In its most evocative moments offers images that will stick in your mind even longer than they stay on the screen.
Tomas Hachard, NPR
Rotten
[A] glum, humorless exercise in Asian miserablism ...
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
An extreme, compassionate magnification of the minutiae of second-to-second existence (brushing teeth, counting money).
Danny King, Village Voice
Fresh
If this is Tsai Ming-Liang's last film, he's leaving the cinema farther along than he found it.
Jake Cole, Film.com
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