Female Film Critics 24/375
To international audiences more accustomed to the relative restraint of China’s arthouse exports, Only Cloud Knows, a slab of toothcrackingly sentimental mooncake from regular national box-office conqueror Feng Xiaogang, might come as a bit of a surprise.
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There are two films in Julie Delpy’s ambitious, sharply-made but unbalanced My Zoe. There’s the scabrous relationship melodrama, about bitter exes sharing custody of a beloved child, which contains the story’s most potent emotions. And there’s the sci-fi-inflected ethical-dilemma grief movie, which houses its most provocative ideas. Both have much to recommend them, not least Delpy’s lithe filmmaking.
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Ip Man comes to America to defeat baddies and bigots despite a diagnosis of cancer, in this highly enjoyable, if politically obvious last installment of director Wilson Yip and producer-star Donnie Yen’s glossy mythmaking tetralogy about the famous Wing Chun master..
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