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Caught in the Web

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Film of a terminally ill woman's mistreatment of a bus passenger goes viral and sparks debate about the intrusiveness of technology and the right to privacy.

Critics Reviews

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Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter 06/08/2016
In this fast-moving, densely plotted black dramedy, a faux scandal raised by an ambitious web TV editor comes close to destroying a number of lives, offering a masterful panorama on urban, middle class China. Go to Full Review Inkoo Kang Los Angeles Times 06/08/2016
Caught in the Web is an unpleasant cudgel of a film -- dour, moralistic and eager to thump. Go to Full Review Tomas Hachard NPR 06/08/2016
There's a stiffness to the actors' performances that reinforces the film's ambiguous tone. And Chen's use of jump cuts is jarring and arbitrary, their ubiquity upping the ante on the film's already tiring hyperactivity. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 08/29/2019
2/5
An oddly flat critique of the life and times in which we live. Go to Full Review Bernard Boo Way Too Indie 04/03/2019
4.8/10
Chen's trite, uninspired approach to the concept is deflating, and ensures Caught in the Web will vanish into the mediocre-movie abyss. Go to Full Review Anders Wright San Diego Union-Tribune 01/24/2014
1.5/5
This is a fascinating concept for a film, but it's not executed particularly well. It seems ripe for a fresh perspective, which, sadly, does not say much about the movie itself. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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03/30/2022 Great movie and very suspenseful!!! See more 03/03/2020 （6.5）I don't want to say anything. See more 09/13/2019 I like this movie, it is real. See more 11/23/2014 great topic, typical Chinese story style. See more 12/05/2013 Interesting vision of the media's privacy abuse from a chinese point of view, but even if the movie is well directed and acted, still in my mind it's too slow and long. See more 11/25/2013 And now everybody's life is all quite equally ruined. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Chen Kaige

Director

Yuanyuan Gao

Ye Lanqiu

Mark Chao

Yang Shoucheng

Chen Hong

Mo Xiaoyu

Wang Xue-Qi

Shen Liushu

Chen Yao

Chen Ruoxi

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Movie Info

Synopsis Film of a terminally ill woman's mistreatment of a bus passenger goes viral and sparks debate about the intrusiveness of technology and the right to privacy.
Director
Chen Kaige
Distributor
levelFILM
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 6, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.1K
Runtime
1h 57m