One Second is as much a tribute to the struggles of a man whose life has stolen from him as it is to a bygone way of looking at movies.
Feng Xiaogang’s latest historical epic at once benefits and suffers from its sweeping historical canvas.
City of Life and Death’s surface is harrowingly beautiful, but it doesn’t provide enough ground to glide along for over two hours.
City of Life and Death navigates the tropes of wartime docudrama with familiar reverence but an inexorable tug of horror.