Tuya's Marriage (Tuya de hun shi) Reviews

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Metascore ®: 65
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San Francisco Chronicle | G. Allen Johnson

Though a heartbreaking film, there are certainly moments of quirky humor.

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75
Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

It's not a great movie, but Yu Nan's performance is superb without being showy or melodramatic.

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70
The New York Times | Stephen Holden

Mr. Wang and his screenwriting collaborator, Lu Wei (?Farewell My Concubine?), portray a world that, apart from its hardship, is thoroughly recognizable in its human complexity. Its characters are motivated by the same needs for companionship and material well-being and the same demons ? greed, lust, jealousy and despair -- that drive everybody.

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70
Boston Globe | Dennis Fisher

The film has an ending that anyone who has watched a movie in the last 15 years will see coming half an hour into the film. But even with that, the weight of the performances from Yu Nan and Bater is enough to make for a satisfying, if uneven, film.

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63
Variety | Derek Elley

Mainland helmer Wang Quanan and his regular lead actress, Yu Nan, tread on largely familiar ground in Tuya's Marriage.

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50

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