In the Mood for Love , the Chinese-language movie from Kar-wai Wong, is receiving positively rapturous reviews from most critics.
Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times concludes his review this way: "This film is a sweet kiss blown to a time long since over, a time that may have existed only in the movies, with ballads recorded in mono while hand-sewn clothing lay perfectly over the bodies of the stars. In the Mood for Love is just that."
Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal asks: "Of all the mysteries that shimmer behind the ravishingly beautiful surfaces of In the Mood for Love ... the most intriguing may be this: How does a highly stylized movie with minimal action, in a language we don't understand, make us care as much as we do for its reluctant lovers?"
Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News describes In the Mood for Love as "a love story told from the point of impact."
But Mike Clark in USA Today calls it "exasperatingly affected" and "painfully laborious."
