Metacritic reviews

Thought provoking and brimming with charm, match that with an infectious sense of humor and outstanding performances.

A juicy Chinese-American romance about preserving "face" at the sacrifice of your whole being. This Sony Pictures Classics release is a comic gem.

Nicely acted.

The film's appealing characters and amusing situations prevail over its general shortage of energy.

Alice Wu's debut film is so deft, natural and exquisitely specific, it feels fresh.

The writer-director, Alice Wu, fudges a lot of the basics -- I never believed the heroine was really a physician -- but the final, proudly public girl-on-girl smooch still jerks a tear.

In her charming debut feature, writer-director Alice Wu works hard to sidestep both pathos and antic comedy, an admirable ambition that makes for a relentlessly low-key film that nonetheless builds to a third act rich in surprising turns of character.

Everything that happens in the last half-hour betrays the canny, hardheaded perspective of what came before.

Despite a fairly explicit lesbian boobfest (projected attendance just went up!), the film is more good-natured than provocative.

The umpteenth variation on second-generation American immigrants bucking the traditions of their first-generation elders.