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35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe sex is REALLY hot. Not hardcore pornographic (at least by my definition of the term) but close.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversLee is a true master, and his potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you won't want to break.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAfter seeing "Brokeback Mountain," with its sanctified couplings against a backdrop of purple mountain majesties, some of us felt that Ang Lee owed us a dirty movie with more bodily fluids. Lust, Caution is that movie--for maybe 10 of its 158 minutes. The rest of the film is absorbing, though.
- 67Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerSet in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, Ang Lee's uneven new film is a bit like a Chinese variant on Paul Verhoeven's "The Black Book." The sex scenes in this otherwise overly prim period piece are extremely graphic.
- 63PremiereHoward KarrenPremiereHoward KarrenIt might have been better to have played it straight — small instead of epic, chronological instead of deconstructed — and to give his characters some explicitness in history instead of the bedroom.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanLust, Caution wants us to feel the erotic ping of buttoned-up people ripping open those buttons, but too often it's the film's drama that's under wraps.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceAng Lee's latest foray into forbidden love is as monotonous and disaffecting as "Brokeback Mountain" was gripping and immediate.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettAng Lee's lugubrious spy epic Lust, Caution brings to mind what soldiers say about war: that it's long periods of boredom relieved by moments of extremely heightened excitement.
- 50VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyToo much caution and too little lust squeeze much of the dramatic juice out of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, a 2½--hour period drama that's a long haul for relatively few returns.