Back to the Wharf

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Back to the Wharf

2020

1h 58m

Drama

Romance

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An escaped convict who was serving time for negligent homicide returns to his hometown after 15 years, but he is haunted by his past and gets mixed up in a scheme involving the daughter of his victim.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

More than just a satisfying slab of neo-noir but a peel-back-the-layers statement on the human tolls of growth in China.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 26, 2023

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Brandon Yu

New York Times

Turns a crime soap opera into an allegory about the moral costs of rapacious expansion — to middling effect.

Jan 17, 2023

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

It's a solid picture which should be of interest to festival programmers looking to showcase rising talent from China, but the film's uneasy tone of morose melodrama might hamper its trajectory.

Dec 6, 2020

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William Stottor

Loud and Clear Reviews

Back to the Wharf’s basic premise is intriguing and potentially powerful, but it becomes cluttered with odd directorial, design, and writing choices.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jul 11, 2024

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

All of Back to the Wharf’s major plot points rely on a shared history between the two lead characters. There should be unbearable tension between Li Tang and Song Hao, but that's not the case and the film suffers for that.

Jul 24, 2023

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

... a film noir setup if ever there was one—an essentially good person, victimized by outside forces, puts a foot wrong once and the course of their life is irrevocably altered for the worse.

Rated: 7/10

Jan 17, 2023

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Dominic G

same chicken, same day

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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An escaped convict who was serving time for negligent homicide returns to his hometown after 15 years, but he is haunted by his past and gets mixed up in a scheme involving the daughter of his victim.

Director: Li Xiaofeng
Producer: Dun He, Bo Huang
Screenwriter: Xin Yu
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 17, 2023
Runtime: 1h 58m

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