Not One Less(一个都不能少)

Miami Herald by

Zhang, who tried to make his actors as unaware of the camera as possible, lets the story evolve slowly and deliberately.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

At first, the picture is moving. . And suddenly charm turns to quasi-commie didacticism.

L.A. Weekly by F. X. Feeney

Zhang's work is always worth watching, but this is the first of his films in which the sorrows are so heart-rending, its many comic moments so laugh-out-loud human.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

It's an uplifting movie about the rewards of perseverance and community.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Its resolution reeks of phoniness and self-congratulation, even if some of the narrative strands leading up to it are fairly absorbing.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

This is much more than a typically one-dimensional message-movie -- it's obviously the work of a master filmmaker .

Village Voice by Leslie Camhi

The film's occasional dips into sentimental cuteness and its too-pat ending can't cancel the gap that yawns ever wider between rural and urban society.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

His story is simple, unadorned, direct. Only the margins are complicated.

Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy

If it touches up against the syrupy at a very few moments, it's nevertheless consistently clear-eyed and convincing.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

Has a slow-burning emotional power.