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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinEvery shot of Stray Dogs has been built with utter formal mastery; every sequence exerts an almost telepathic grip.
- 100CineVuePatrick GambleCineVuePatrick GambleTsai's Stray Dogs is a masterpiece of social-realism, a distinctive and beguiling study of society's displaced and marginalised that plays to the beat of its own drum and refuses to conform to cinema's own commodification.
- 100Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerTsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions.
- 95Film.comFilm.comStray Dogs pushes Tsai’s cinema of laissez-faire long takes, performative observation and pangs of regret and loss to their extreme.
- 91The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe filmmaking here is almost impossibly well-realized, right down to the evocative sound design, adding up to an fairly unforgettable experience.
- 90The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasStray Dogs evokes the whole of Tsai’s filmography, but also pays off his collaboration with Lee, who shows a side of himself that’s been hidden away for all these years.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe director’s austere minimalism has always been suspended between the mesmerizing and the distancing, and in his latest feature, the concentration on elliptical observation, mood and texture signals an almost complete rejection of narrative.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe lengthy final two shots (each running more than ten minutes) rank among the best work this inimitable artist has ever done.
- 70Village VoiceDanny KingVillage VoiceDanny KingAn extreme, compassionate magnification of the minutiae of second-to-second existence (brushing teeth, counting money).