The first great film of this year, arguably, was Wang Xiaoshuai's three-hour So Long, My Son...although it is only 80 minutes long, his Chinese Portrait is equally expansive, although in a telegraphic, fragmented manner. Full Review

Rating: 3.5/4 -- As the film progresses it becomes something at once wondrous and revelatory, a dynamic living document of modern China that invites viewers to take in the world around them. Full Review

Rating: 4/4 -- Wang Xiaoshuai's latest movie works so splendidly on its own self-contained and easily divined terms you could watch it without knowing anything about the Shanghai-born director and still walk out stunned. Full Review

Rating: 3.5/4 -- The simplicity of bodies barely moving before a camera that brings their quotidian temporality into a halt is nothing short of a radical proposition in our digital era. Full Review

Elegantly simple in both concept and execution, Chinese Portrait is thoroughly captivating as its kinetic tableaux breathe new life into the very notion of "moving pictures". Full Review

[A] powerful, panoramic survey of a society in transformation...the doc provides a key to understanding Wang and the sixth-generation Chinese filmmakers of which he is a part.

Connecting the images is like putting together the pieces of puzzle that shows the whole of China, in its past, present and future forms, and that is where the production's value truly lies. Full Review