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A Touch of Sin
2013 2h 11m Not Rated
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Crime
7.1
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Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
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Directed By
Jia Zhangke
Written By
Jia Zhangke
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Cast of A Touch of Sin
Jiang Wu
Dahai
Wang Baoqiang
Zhou San
Zhao Tao
Xiao Yu
Li Meng
Lianrong
Zhang Jiayi
Zhang Youliang
Luo Lanshan
Xiao Hui
Lu Liu
Wang Qiang
Wang Hongwei
Han Dong
Han Sanming
Lin Min-Chen
Jin Zhang
Lu Zhou
Shide Liu
Jia Zhangke
Distinguished Guest
A Touch of Sin Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
In two decades of moviemaking, China's Jia Zhangke has examined the damage of his country's explosive growth with a poetic sense of outrage. With his latest effort, the implied violence bubbles over.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Jia is passionate about his characters, but that never compromises his considerable artistic control.
Washington Post
John DeFore
Jia offers a stark presentation (no music, few edits) that discourages vicarious thrills; the violence is startling, not cool.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Drawing on four news stories, writer-director Jia Zhangke portrays the plight of workers in the new China. Set in four provinces, A Touch of Sin is humanist critique of the country's turn to capitalism.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A corrosive depiction of the New China, an everything-for-sale society still figuring out how to cope with the dehumanizing effects of unbridled capitalism.
Newsday
John Anderson
In addressing the two-pronged beast of westernization / corruption, Jia gives us a multipronged and engrossing set of plots.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Sin, more stylized than the director's previous work, is also more detached.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
[A] bracing and unexpected offering from a director we thought we knew.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
This masterwork is set in contemporary China, where the gulf between those able to maneuver (or manipulate) the country's economies of change and those left behind or defeated by the seismic shifts widens.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Jia's primary concern here is the solitary suffering of his characters, punished to the point where they can't take anymore.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
In Jia's methodically furious vision, the ambient violence of unchecked power erupts among the insulted and injured with a horrific yet liberating sense of destruction and self-destruction.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China, "A Touch of Sin" is at once monumental and human scale.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
It's a bold, invigorating statement from a director who keeps reinventing himself.
RogerEbert.com
Marsha McCreadie
It's not a pretty picture, but it's a compelling one.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
The most dramatic and even lurid of writer-director Jia Zhangke's movies.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
"A Touch of Sin" is by no means subtle, but it is composed with a passion and sinuous grace that makes it far more effective than many other sincere message movies.
Slant Magazine
Chris Cabin
As depicted by Jia Zhang-ke, the balance between the spoils and moral rot of murder are far preferable to the debasing rigors of tradition and hollow nationalism.
Village Voice
Stephanie Zacharek
Jia has a knack for orchestrating violence: The brutality is just stylized enough to have a kick, though you always feel its emotional weight.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
The movie builds repeatedly to crescendo, pushing some desperate individual to the brink and then watching as he or she explodes into violence.
Film.com
Calum Marsh
By far the best action movie of the year.
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