Dave Giannini InSession Film Feb 23, 2024

Matching, and at times exceeding Leung’s performance, is his sometimes scene partner, Zhang Ziyi.

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Aug 19, 2023

The hazy intensity of the saturated images, the enchanting soundtrack of lush lounge music, and Wong’s way of tilting intimate scenes with his skewed visuals, all create an atmosphere thick with longing and loneliness.

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Jason Shawhan Nashville Scene Sep 10, 2021

...this film is a sweeping epic of melancholy beauty and textures filtered through and diminished by the passage of time.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Sep 9, 2021 2/4

Nothing here hurts as much as it should.

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Tim Stevens The Spool Mar 31, 2021

Few movies can transport you, even for a moment. 2046 does that and more, rooting you in its multiple realities in a way that feels real and easy to understand.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Mar 27, 2021 3/4

Ambitious sequel to In the Mood for Love.

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Oti Rodríguez Marchante Cinemanía (Spain) Jul 17, 2019 5/5

2046 is not so much a date as a place or a state of mind. [Full review in Spanish]

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 5, 2019 3.5/4

Cinematographer Christopher Doyle adds to the atmosphere using vibrant colors that seem to pop right off the screen, and Shigeru Umebayashi's lush score sweeps through the film like a master painter's brush.

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Tom Dawson The List Apr 23, 2019 4/5

Wong Kar-wai's sumptuous tale of romantic heartbreak is now finally ready to be released: the end result is a work which combines formal cinematic brilliance with an operatic intensity of feeling.

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David Ansen Newsweek Mar 14, 2018

The ravishing images are tinged with regret and loss: no passion can assuage the jaded hero's solitude.

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Jonathan Romney Independent on Sunday Mar 6, 2015

Wwithout a doubt, it's seductively perplexing and devilishly good-looking -- and if you like it, you'll probably find that one viewing isn't enough.

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Kent Jones Film Comment Magazine Nov 19, 2013

For all its balance and grandeur, 2046 is the most nervous of Wong's films.

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Michael Nordine Not Coming to a Theater Near You Oct 26, 2011

2046 thus comes to encapsulate everything to which Wong (and, in turn, his audience) keeps returning.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Sep 1, 2009

In the mood for sublimity

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Dan Jardine Apollo Guide Jul 21, 2009 86/100

Seductive and luscious, a cinematic smorgasbord of sensuous delight.

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Bob Mondello NPR.org Oct 18, 2008

The result is a sumptuous time-teasing story.

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Oct 18, 2008

Here, the mystery of the deepest recesses of human emotion are plundered for cinematic play.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Jun 6, 2007

The romantic fatalism is so lush that you're invited to get lost in it.

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Andrew Sarris Observer Apr 25, 2007

Quite simply an incomparably sublime work of art, a triumph of lyricism over narrative in the cinema, and the most exquisite homage to the beauty of women it has ever been my privilege to witness on the screen.

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Geoff Andrew Time Out Jun 24, 2006

It may help if you grasp the many allusions to Wong's earlier films (including, notably, Days of Being Wild), but it's far from necessary. This, after all, is undeniably real cinema.

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