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This is not a film for people unfamiliar with Tsai and Lee’s work. It’s a film for cinephiles who loved “Stray Dogs.”
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The Hollywood Reporter by Clarence Tsui
The film is surprisingly shoddy stylistically.
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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Obviously, this is not a film for viewers unfamiliar with Mr. Tsai’s work. But its insistently austere format does suggest a purpose beyond its immediate context.
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The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Candid and audaciously minimalist, Afternoon risks self-indulgence, but comes out with insight.
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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
This is not a movie, really, but a back-rub and a cup of tea for Tsai purists, for whom the filmmaker's company, behind or in front of the camera, is all that's required.
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The Film Stage by Zhuo-Ning Su
For Tsai’s numbered but avid fans everywhere, it offers a highly informative, almost voyeuristic peek behind the creation of such masterpieces of urban loneliness as Vive L’Amour or Stray Dogs.