Tony Leung

A balance of colorful visual and aural poetry, elegant plot structure, and battles marked by a swift graphic intensity and epic scope.

Lee provides no such easy comfort, instead keeping audiences constantly off-kilter, purposefully frustrating them with character behavior that's just...wrong.

In a wonderful evocation of the art of war, Woo not only recreates elegant troop movements but also stages a memorable scene in which...[two men of war], still wary of each other, bond over music as they play what becomes a conversational duet.

More than anything, perhaps, The Grandmaster is a feminist tragedy that, at least in this cut, seems to lose interest in Ip Man and pass the torch to the considerably more fascinating Gong Er...