Leftover Women

Leftover Women is captivating viewing that demands we think with intelligence and compassion of a world beyond our own experience.

Erratic though it is, Leftover Women makes one important point. It reveals how much at least some parts of society still expect women to accommodate what's best for men.

It gets pretty hard to penetrate beyond the superficialities of the relationships presented on screen. However, Joelle Alexis' editing achieves a certain balance despite the unevenness of the different sequences.

Leftover Women shows that the humiliation and pressure that unmarried women in China have to go through to find a husband make The Bachelor look like a feminist paradise.

Films such as the Leftover Women remind viewers that the fight for equality is not a problem confined to one country or community, but rather the world.

These women may be considered "leftover" in their homeland, but in this movie, at least, they are stars.

Leftover Women has a meandering energy that befits its title subjects, who are lost in a universe of dating options.

The chilling thing is that Leftover Women doesn't necessarily represent a problem, but the dawning of one, a demographic cataclysm that sees no signs of going away.

An emotionally complex piece of personal portraiture that intimately reveals the extent to which traditional attitudes still dominate Chinese society regardless of its globalised surface.

...Leftover Women begins to feel less like a documentary and more like a heart-breaking character study...