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The film was met with critical acclaim. The film has a score of 60% from Rotten Tomatoes based on ten reviews. [1]Roger Ebert from the Chicago-Sun Times awarded the film three out of four, and wrote, "A Great Wall is a human comedy about a Chinese-American family that goes to visit relatives in Peking, and within that simple premise are so many inspirations that the movie is interesting even ...
Produced on a then-enormous budget of $10 million, [1] the film's domestic gross was $10 million, [2] earning only $5 million in theatrical rentals. [55] It was the 20th highest-grossing film of 1963. The figures quoted ignore foreign box office receipts where the film was much more successful than in the United States. [citation needed]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The film premiered on April 23, 2018 in Beijing. [7] At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Netflix bought exclusive distribution rights to the film everywhere outside of China. [8] The film was released on the service on June 22, 2018. [9] Liu remarked, "I am honored that the film was chosen as Netflix’s first Chinese language original film." [3]
[5] Variety also gave it a positive review, noting that the film "confirms [Jia] as one of the most interesting and insightful chroniclers of the new China." [3] Criticisms of the film generally revolved around the idea that the film was overly long and meandering (a common criticism of Jia's films, see, for example, Unknown Pleasures).
The portrait weighs 1.5 metric tons (2 short tons), and is replaced by a spare whenever it is vandalized. [10] In 1989, three dissidents, including Yu Dongyue, attacked the portrait with eggs during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Yu was sentenced to life imprisonment but was released on bail 17 years later in 2006.
The film is set in the early 1970s in Beijing, during the Cultural Revolution.It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun, a teenage boy nicknamed "Monkey" (played by Xia Yu, some of Monkey's experiences mimic director Jiang's during the Revolution), [2] Monkey and his friends are free to roam the streets of Beijing day and night because the local school system is non-functional and the ...
Total Film gave a 3 out of 5 star rating, stating that Red Corner was "A semi-powerful thriller let down by pedestrian direction and a lacklustre Richard Gere. Even so, newcomer Bai Ling and an unblinking stare at the Draconian Chinese legal system prevent Red Corner from being an open-and-shut case" and describes some scenes depicting the ...