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  Review by Jacob ★★★★½ 12

  me, after california dreamin' plays for the 400th time: "PLAY IT AGAIN WONG"

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 35

  I love the stupidity of holding on to what has moved on.

  I love the smallness of the biggest emotion we know.

  I love the pain that doesn't seem to leave but you know somehow it will.

  I love seeing love.

  And I love how Wong Kar-Wai manages to capture all of the above and mold it into a piece of visual poetry, instilled with the melancholy, pain, joy, frivolity and promise our species' most powerful four letter word possesses.

  Even in isolation, Wong Kar-Wai manages to find love in two completely different tales, that pass within 0,01 cm of each other briefly giving the other a glance of desperate recognition. Chungking Express is about our need for companionship, the…

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  Review by Brendan Michaels ★★★★★ 6

  I always love films about people feeling...lost. It reminds me of who I am. There's this feeling of trying to find a connection to something but there's a struggle as you don't know how to work that connection. That's what I think Wong Kar-Wai pulls off so well with this film. He creates these parallel stories of people who want to connect but are too lost to do anything about it. This is the true work of a master and I can already tell Wong Kar-Wai will be a great director to explore in the future. I kind of adore this movie if you haven't already realized.

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  Review by yazz! *･ﾟ✧ ★★★★½ 3

  bitches be like ACAB then rate chungking express 4.5 stars

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  Review by iana ★★★★★ 1

  sometimes i feel like a can of expired pineapples

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★ 5

  all the leaves are brown ᵃˡˡ ᵗʰᵉ ˡᵉᵃᵛᵉˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᵇʳᵒʷⁿ
  and the sky is grey ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵏʸ ᶦˢ ᵍʳᵉʸ

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  Review by Willow Maclay 13

  I have this idea of "Shoegaze Cinema". It's filmmaking evocative of the same type of mood that music from bands like My Bloody Valentine created. This is exactly the sort of thing that comes to mind when I ponder the idea of that genre existing in cinema

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  Review by kársten ★★★ 15

  I wanted to like it....so badly....but I didn’t care about anything that was happening.

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★★ 10

  "Actually, really knowing someone doesn't mean anything. People change. A person may like pineapple today and something else tomorrow."

  Perfect movie, intimate but not claustrophobic, bittersweet but not sad, funny but not silly, beautiful but not pretty, ultimately, nothing more or less than what life feels like. All I could think of watching this how much an antidote it is to the "one perfect shot-ization" of modern, "indie" movies. There are so many perfect shots in this movie and none of them look like screen savers of big splendid vistas at magic hour, instead they're all of beer bottles, jukeboxes, fish tanks, and the quotidian and banal details that clutter the urban dreamscape infused with a deep emotional resonance.

  "If…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½

  “We’re all unlucky in love sometimes.”

  Frustrated by the interminable post-production of “Ashes of Time” and itching to get out of the editing room, Wong Kar Wai hit the streets of Hong Kong and — in a blitz of pent-up creativity — slapped together one of the most earthshaking movies of its decade in less than two months. No wonder it moves in such a hurry. Is any other film so captivating so fast?

  Lightning in a bottle, “Chungking Express” bolts out of the darkness to the queasy sounds of Michael Galasso’s organ-grinder soundtrack. A blonde-wigged Brigitte Lin speeds through the bowels of Kowloon’s Chungking Mansions, the world streaking around her, life always in media res. By the time the…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 2

  you never know if it's going to rain or be sunny. one of the all-time great Vibes movies

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  Review by iana ★★★★★ 7

  the emotional whiplash i get from falling in love with every character in this film