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The World

2004 · 2h 20m · Not Rated Drama
Directed by Jia Zhangke

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Overview

At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.

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74%
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Rotten

A tonally flat experience. The movie's highs and lows are modulated to the point where nothing moves you or touches you in these lives of not-desperate-enough desperation.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh

It's a heartbreaking, beautiful movie that gains strength from its deep characterizations.

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

Its rewards come with patience and concentration.

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh

It has a romantic power that seeps into your bones, with its languid rhythms, general plotlessness, and fierce attention to surreal detail.

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh

The World has a lot to say and is not in any unholy rush to say it.

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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