Chungking Express

"This is the kind of movie you'll relate to if you love film itself, rather than its surface aspects such as story and stars."

"More impressive than engaging."

"Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express is as fresh as falling rain, a pair of love stories full of pain and humor."

"Despite the liveliness of Chungking Express's first half, it's this second story that catapults it into the company of Wong's best films."

"Wong made Chungking in just 23 days, and the film's mad-dash energy is nicely reflected in his quartet of stars."

"Dull it is not, but Wong's trademark sense of romantic melancholy fails to jell amid all the excess."

"[Wong's] hypnotic images of love and loss finally wear down your resistance as seemingly discordant sights and sounds coalesce into a radiant, crazy quilt."

"Wong's frenetic blend of slow motion, pixilation, rushing backgrounds and frozen foregrounds (or vice versa) is as integral to this movie as its bubbly story and characters."