Youth

Youth is as sentimental as it is accomplished, but Xiaogang’s mastery both of broad sweep and intimate detail proves an impressive feat.

As a straight, sentimental melodrama, Youth works well. While there are a lot of conventional tropes, the cast enacts them with such fres...

Youth is a whirl of grand, dramatic gestures.

If our understanding of the losses these characters have suffered feels incomplete, it’s hard to come away entirely unaffected as these men and wom...

The film’s themes mature from adolescent pettiness to adult regret, with several epilogues set well after the main events of the story.

Feng employs traditional craftsmanship to draw a sweeping historical canvas with profound human upheavals that mirror virtues and flaws of the...