April 14, 2010
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
As part of the monthly exhibition ContemporAsian, MoMA showcases films that get little exposure outside of their home countries or on the international festival circuit, but which engage the various s... read more 
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April 13, 2010
A.O. Scott, New York Times
In spite of its length the film feels foreshortened, as if every vignette or incident, every character encountered for a few moments, contained the germ of an unwritten novel. Full Review
March 9, 2010
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
I do not expect to soon find scenes to match Ghost Town's mountaintop funeral, the running along after a rowdy exorcism, or the scanning of faces at the town Christmas chorale. His back to prosperity,... Full Review
April 14, 2010
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Zhao Dayong's Ghost Town paints a haunting trifurcated portrait of people set adrift by forced large-scale economic and cultural transformations. Full Review
March 24, 2010
Ethan Alter, NYC Film Critic
"Superficial" is one word that can't be used to describe Zhao Dayong's Ghost Town. Full Review
March 10, 2010
David Fear, Time Out New York
Never mind the nation's great economic leap forward; the longer you watch Zhao's chronicle of the financially destitute and the bureaucratically forgotten (and it's a lengthy doc), the more you feel t... Full Review
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