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Caught by the Tides
Directed by
Jia Zhangke
2025
1h 51m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
6.7
99%
6.8
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A Chinese woman lives for herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.
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Caught by the Tides Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Tim Grierson
Drawing from nearly 25 years of footage, including images from his most acclaimed films, Jia has crafted a poignant new story with an assist from fragments of old tales.
Denerstein Unleashed
Robert Denerstein
Although I didn't grasp every detail in director Jia Zhang-ke's Caught By the Tides,...the gist of the movie is clear enough to make it worth exercising the patience Jia's movie demands.
Michael J. Cinema
Michael J. Casey
"Caught by the Tides" is a bit too much of a good thing. It's inscrutable at times, accessible in others. If you've seen other Jia movies, then there will be moments that feel familiar, but that's not really the point.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
This is a quietly brilliant film, one that blends a personal story, about two young people trying to make their mark, with a more global one, about a country that, a little more than 20 years ago, began changing drastically by the minute.
Willamette Week
Robert Ham
The real attraction is the huge canvas that the filmmaker uses to tell this story.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Caught by the Tides suggest that it's being built on the ruins of a pastoral idyll. The past wasn't that great, [Jis] implies, but if you're going to replace it then make it something better - and that applies to Qiao Qiao and Guo Bin.
The New Republic
Adam Nayman
It would be reductive to call a movie as expansive and Caught by the Tides a downer; if anything, the final moments vibrate with curiosity about what lies beyond the frame, and where Jia and Zhao might go next.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Madeline Leung Coleman
Jia's recycling is not haphazard or mistaken. He's an artist squeezing all the juice from his lemon.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
As emotionally effective as it is formally brilliant, it draws on a trove of material - both fiction and nonfiction - that Jia began shooting in 2001 while working on another movie.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
In retracing his steps throughout "Caught By the Tides," Jia delivers an expansive, ingenious summary of his project to date.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
While it's true actors can tell us much with their faces, and directors much with their vistas, a few words here and there to let us inside these characters would have been welcome.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A mesmerizing film about the sweep and swirl of life, love, and the relationship between yesterday and today.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
A remarkably cohesive, even profound vessel for capturing what has most interested [Jia Zhangke] as a filmmaker: the tidal wave-sized currents of technological progress and social transmutation that wash over a lifetime.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
It's a credit to Jia's considerable filmmaking gifts and vision that the emotional coherence of the film-in the end, its poignancy-is entirely internal, made up of the unlikely connections it forms within itself.
The New Yorker
Justin Chang
What Jia has captured here is the aging not of an individual but of a country... But "Caught by the Tides" cuts deeper still. Through the strange miracle of its existence, it shows us that the art of the motion picture is aging, too.
Slant Magazine
William Repass
Jia Zhang-ke's Caught by the Tides attests to the fact that making art under the most adverse conditions can prove to be serendipitous.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
You could call it a movie about connection, but one fashioned out of shots of isolation.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Zhao's face is one of the most transfixingly expressive in modern cinema, and her long collaboration with her husband Jia stands among the screen's greatest actress-director unions.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Its emotional impact is muted and its romance almost purely conceptual, but the fact that Qiaoqiao and Brother Bin's affection survive all of this tumult and transformation is moving unto itself, as is Jia's dedication to documenting that change.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
"Tides" exerts its own inexorable pull, and as a mid-career moment of transcendence for Jia, it feels less like a grace note than an act of liberation.
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