Critic Reviews
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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaus of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
This is entertaining filmmaking on a grand scale.
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Derek Elley, Variety
Seductively lensed but emotionally uninvolving.
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David Ansen, Newsweek
Chen's remarkable movie uses an unusual love triangle to telescope more than 50 years of tumultuous Chinese history.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
One of those very rare film spectacles that deliver just about everything the ads are likely to promise.
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Cast
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Leslie Cheungas Cheng Dieyi (Douzi) -
Fengyi Zhangas Duan Xiaolou -
Li Gongas Juxian
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