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Moments are frozen into memory in a way that overrides context.

A film of refreshingly non-intertwining stories and nice characterisation.

Each of these storylines wash over one another, refusing to take on a fully-fledged shape and yet they have a surprisingly cohesive cumulative effect.

Kwan aptly probes the boundaries between reality and fiction that were so paper thin during Ruan’s own life.

Sammo Hung provides the action sequences, there are model shots and good old fashioned matte painting and the costumes - oh, my, the costumes.

The most interesting characters, ironically, are those with the least screen time.

Wong Kar Wai knows how to frame faces like no other, with embroidered collars, white straw fedoras, a rowdy monkey, cotton flowers and words escaping lips that are like song.

Kar-Wai avoids cultish gay stereotyping.

Every cinematic trick in the book to make Hero's violence as sexy as a car commercial

The film is so subtle and slow and internalised that it crystalises into a thing of beauty.

Li cements her status as a Chinese director to watch

The sex... has all the choreography of Strictly Come Shagging rather than being the exploration of lust the title suggests.

If you are a fan of historical epics, this is one of the best.

While the three Twilight Zone-style movies - Dumplings, Cut and Box - are not without merit, they are far from satisfying or truly terrifying.