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Cast
- Jiang WuDahai
- Wang BaoqiangZhou San
- Zhao TaoXiao Yu
- Li MengLianrong
- Zhang JiayiZhang Youliang
- Luo LanshanXiao Hui
- Lu Liu
- Wang Qiang
- Wang Hongwei
- Han Dong
Recommendations
- 100
Slant Magazine
As depicted by Jia Zhang-ke, the balance between the spoils and moral rot of murder are far preferable to the debasing rigors of tradition and hollow nationalism. - 91
The A.V. Club
The bloodshed is fast and brutal — the flash of a knife, a splash of crimson in a backseat, an opening robbery gone horrifically awry. There’s even a little Tarantino in the staging, as when a blood-splattered wallflower unleashes her Kill Bill-style vengeance straight into the camera lens. - 90
Film.com
Part of what’s so invigorating about A Touch of Sin is its refusal to betray the depth of its intellectual ambition, deferring when needed to generic convention and relishing the entertainment which follows. - 80
The Telegraph
[A] stately and ambitious ensemble drama. - 80
Time Out
There’s a sense that all the thematic messiness is intentional, a way for Jia to diagnose the ills of a country whose economic and social fabric is wilting under the effects of rapid modernization. - 80
Village Voice
In A Touch of Sin, Jia is attuned to, and saddened by, the violence he sees creeping through his country, caused at least partly by the ever-widening disparity between rich and poor. He ends on a note that's more haunting than hopeful. - 60
Variety
There’s a certain pleasure to be had in seeing a revered auteur go off the disreputable deep end, and there’s no denying A Touch of Sin packs a visceral wallop. - 50
The Playlist
The people of Jia’s film are mysterious, their reactions and motivations, outside of that first segment in which we get the best-drawn and therefore most anomalous character, are all but unknowable.
