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An entertaining mystery that's also rich in setting and character detail, Chan Is Missing suggests thrilling potential from director/co-writer Wayne Wang.
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It's a matchless delight. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
It's a matchless delight.
Vincent Canby
As well as wackiness, there is wisdom. This was Wang's debut movie, made before the recently seen Dim Sum, and already he shows a flair consummated in that film for stretching domestic details or family tiffs into a pixillated poetry of the everyday. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
As well as wackiness, there is wisdom. This was Wang's debut movie, made before the recently seen Dim Sum, and already he shows a flair consummated in that film for stretching domestic details or family tiffs into a pixillated poetry of the everyday.
Nigel Andrews
Chan Is Missing proves to be a better pretext for a movie than a finished film. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
Chan Is Missing proves to be a better pretext for a movie than a finished film.
Gary Arnold
A classic, albeit unsolvable, brainteaser. September 7, 2016 | Full Review…
A classic, albeit unsolvable, brainteaser.
Simon Abrams
Any filmmaker who can so thoroughly force the viewer to look at the world through his eyes possesses a talent to reckon with. July 6, 2010 | Full Review…
Any filmmaker who can so thoroughly force the viewer to look at the world through his eyes possesses a talent to reckon with.
Variety Staff
A raunchy, sprawling and completely unpredictable panorama of the Chinese-American experience. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
A raunchy, sprawling and completely unpredictable panorama of the Chinese-American experience.
Tony Rayns
The whole of Chan Is Missing, impressively photographed in black and white by Michael Chin, funny and fast moving, crackles with the excitement of a new director tackling a new, exciting subject. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
The whole of Chan Is Missing, impressively photographed in black and white by Michael Chin, funny and fast moving, crackles with the excitement of a new director tackling a new, exciting subject.
Sean French
[Chan is Missing takes] us on an insightful insider's tour of Chinatown with a mini-course in the neighbor's old world/new world politics. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
[Chan is Missing takes] us on an insightful insider's tour of Chinatown with a mini-course in the neighbor's old world/new world politics.
Michael Lasky
Director Wayne Wang has a lot to learn about cutting, pacing, composition and telling a story. What saves him, and his movie, is his ability to tell good anecdotes. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
Director Wayne Wang has a lot to learn about cutting, pacing, composition and telling a story. What saves him, and his movie, is his ability to tell good anecdotes.
Lawrence O'Toole
A wry variation on old detective movies. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
A wry variation on old detective movies.
David Sterritt
Comic, intriguing and, often almost anthropological, this was one of the first films to show what the American indie sector was capable of. May 12, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Comic, intriguing and, often almost anthropological, this was one of the first films to show what the American indie sector was capable of.
David Parkinson
In spite of technical crudities and a sometimes confusing story line, this is a minor triumph. May 12, 2020 | Full Review…
In spite of technical crudities and a sometimes confusing story line, this is a minor triumph.
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