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Li Xuejian has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Wandering Earth II.
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
Action · Drama

Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.
Dir. Frant Gwo · With Wu Jing, Andy Lau, Li Xuejian

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Zhou Dongyu, Shawn Dou, Xi Meijuan

Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.
Dir. Wuershan · With Yu Shi, Kris Phillips, Li Xuejian

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Sun Chun
A monk leaves his monastery and ventures out into the real world for the first time in his life, and ends up in an adventure with a kung-fu master who is guarding a special artifact.
Dir. Chen Kaige · With Wang Baoqiang, Li Xuejian, Fan Wei
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