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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 4

  In a Wong Kar-wai film, the most romantic gesture in the entire world is cleaning your crush's apartment.

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★

  I finally understood how he could be happy running around so free. It’s because he has a place he can always return to.

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  Review by weak lungs ★★★★★ 8

  every time the dancing scene crosses my mind I cry like a little homo baby.

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  Review by iana ★★★★★ 4

  tony leung’s earring is so powerful

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  Review by Wes ★★★★★ 1

  "Turns out that lonely people are all the same."

  are we all in agreement we should be considering this as one of the greatest films of all time yet? because this combines everything thats rich about wong kar wais style and infuses it with the most devastating romance i've seen. watching ho light his cigarette with lais burning one felt like having all my bones broken at once by wong kar wai himself.

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  Review by Tyler ★★★★ 1

  100% believe Wong Kar-wai invented love.

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  Review by ian curtis ★★★★★ 6

  I don't believe in love anymore but i believe in CINEMA.

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  Review by Holli ★★★★½ 1

  "say something."

  wong kar-wai films are almost always about yearning; about wanting someone you can't have. happy together is the opposite. it's about having someone you don't want, and loving them even though they're bad for you. it's about wanting something new but not wanting to leave the past behind. it's ugly and loud and aggressive. they yell and argue and tear each other apart when they're together, then silently cry when they're apart. but then, every once in a while, they dance. they hold each other close and feel each other's skin. they're happy, even if only for the briefest moments. "let's start over," he whispers. and they do. and it repeats. the anger, the frustration - all of it. even in moments of escape they are still not happy. not really. and that's what makes it wong kar-wai's most devastating film.

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★½ 10

  "I wonder what Hong Kong looks like upside down."

  The two greatest Chinese actors of their generation locked in a room and tearing each other apart with short spells apart spent luxuriating in some of Christopher Doyle's most exuberantly beautiful images, while young Chang Chen floats around as the hope for the future.

  Theory that the trouble with the relationship is not Leslie Cheung's infidelity, it's Tony Leung's paranoid possessiveness. He steals Leslie's passport, he packs the house with cigarettes so Leslie won't ever leave, he secretly hopes Leslie won't recover from his injuries. We never see Leslie with another man when they were together, only when they're broken up, self-destructively flaunting his promiscuity in the face of Tony's distrust.…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★

  “It turns out lonely people are all the same.”

  “We’re going to shoot a road movie in Argentina,” Wong Kar Wai told his cast and crew before they boarded the plane that would take them to the next year or two of their lives. “From where to where I don’t know yet.”

  While the film world was still recovering from the one-two punch of “Chungking Express” and “Fallen Angels,” Wong sought to make something that would recapture the magic while keeping his audience on their heels. The result is a movie that’s as much the flipside to that couplet as “Chungking Express” and “Fallen Angels” were to each other — an antipodean love story that cemented Wong’s auteur status by…

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  Review by Chris 🍉 ★★★★★ 6

  "I felt very sad. I felt like there should be two of us standing here."

  gay asian men? check.
  depressed? check.
  lonely? check.
  barely scraping by? check.
  strained relationship with parents? check.
  unable to properly convey what they're feeling? check.

  i really relate so closely to this movie and to top it all off it came out the year i was born so... what im saying is this movie belongs to me

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  Review by stevie ★★★★ 1

  Wong Kar-WHY do you want me to SUFFER???