Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

I cannot express to you how beautiful and stunning it is.

Crouching Tiger doesn't so much break new ground as reconfigure the genre with the pomp and ceremony of Western production values and psychological nuance.

Amazing, magical martial arts fairy tale.

The smartest and smartest-looking action movie of the year.

It's abundantly clear that Lee, in conjunction with fight choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping (famed for The Matrix), has brought to these standard tropes his own elevating, near-feline sensibilities.

A firebrand of a movie, bold, dramatic, and haunting.

Whether its ending is tragic or hopeful depends on your interpretation of events. It’s the perfect conclusion for a nearly perfect movie that is all about journeys and paths not taken, about love and all that stands in its way.

There is something unworldly about [Tiger] that makes it seem like a story you imagined, not a film you watched on a screen. Somehow, the film is transcendent -- but in a completely straightforward manner. Quite simply, this is the year's best picture.

It's a lush, striking homage to a genre that by the new millennium had already been dead except for the intermittent throwback-style film.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was groundbreaking for its time... Lee did an incredible job bringing something new and fresh to action movies.