A Touch of Sin

"Unquestionably Jia's most mainstream-friendly work, if also his most schematic and, blades aside, least penetrating"

"It's travelogue cinema for the dissolute and gravely disenfranchised."

"In Jia's methodically furious vision, the ambient violence of unchecked power erupts among the insulted and injured with a horrific yet liberating sense of destruction and self-destruction."

"A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China... at once monumental and human scale."

"This is a bitter, jagged, disaffected drama, pessimistic about China, pessimistic about the whole world."

"Impassioned admirers of maverick Chinese writer-director Jia Zhang-ke's work may get on board, but new converts seem unlikely."