Curse of the Golden Flower

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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is the former film critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2014.
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Published on January 12, 2007 05:00AM EST

In Zhang Yimou’s exercise in tearoom psychedelia, a family of Chinese royals walk through a gorgeously gaudy palatial maze. It’s Dallas with less juice.

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