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Wong Kar-Wai has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Fallen Angels.
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In the Mood for Love
2000 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 2%Max · Included

Fallen Angels
1995 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 2%Max · Included

Chungking Express
1994 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 3%Max · Included

Happy Together
1997 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 11%Max · Included

Days of Being Wild
1990 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 20%Max · Included

The Grandmaster
2013 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Siu Ping-Lam

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Leon Lai Ming, Michele Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong

Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen

Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. Throughout five seasons in exile, Ouyang spins tales of his clients' unrequited loves and unusual acts of bravery.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka-fai

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Dir. Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Manoel de Oliveira, Bille August, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Walter Salles, Tsai Ming-liang, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Elia Suleiman, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou · With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai · With Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tien Feng