Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

Together is a likely candidate to become that one foreign-language film that jumps out of the art houses each year to become a mainstream phenomenon.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

To contextualize the story's lack of subtlety, it helps to see these casting choices as ongoing penance for the time when, as a boy, Chen denounced his own father to the Red Guard.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Pays off in surprising ways, when love of music, and fame, plays second fiddle to love of family.

Chicago Reader by Ted Shen

Chen tries to generate some suspense, but there's never any doubt which side has to win.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

A high tolerance for syrupy melodrama is required in order to enjoy Together.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Ray Conlogue

If you're in the mood for tears and triumph, with a dash of exoticism, Together may well be the film for you.

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

The film doesn't amount to an emotionally palpable experience. Most of the stops it attempts to pull out are rusty. The movie ends with a gigantic lump in its throat, one that would take a tall glass of Barbara Stanwyck to wash down.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

The result is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser that will strike Chen's admirers as a heartfelt but decidedly minor effort.

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

The performances are all terrific, but Together never jells as a compelling narrative.

L.A. Weekly by John Powers

Its schmaltzy manipulations are pure 1940s Hollywood. Still, if you can get past the corn, the story exerts a not-unsatisfying emotional pull thanks to Yun's soulful gravity and a tenderness that Chen hasn't shown quite so openly since his 1984 debut, "Yellow Earth."