Caught in the Web

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Caught in the Web

Released Dec 6, 2013

1h 57m

Drama

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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.

Deborah Young

The Hollywood Reporter

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.

Jun 8, 2016

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Inkoo Kang

Los Angeles Times

Caught in the Web is an unpleasant cudgel of a film -- dour, moralistic and eager to thump.

Jun 8, 2016

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Tomas Hachard

NPR

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.

Jun 8, 2016

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

An oddly flat critique of the life and times in which we live.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 29, 2019

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Bernard Boo

Way Too Indie

Chen's trite, uninspired approach to the concept is deflating, and ensures Caught in the Web will vanish into the mediocre-movie abyss.

Rated: 4.8/10

Apr 3, 2019

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Anders Wright

San Diego Union-Tribune

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.

Rated: 1.5/5

Jan 24, 2014

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Great movie and very suspenseful!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

（6.5）I don't want to say anything.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

I like this movie, it is real.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

great topic, typical Chinese story style.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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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.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

And now everybody's life is all quite equally ruined.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Chen Kaige

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Yuanyuan Gao

Ye Lanqiu

Mark Chao

Yang Shoucheng

Chen Hong

Mo Xiaoyu

Wang Xue-Qi

Shen Liushu

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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