Last Train Home

"Helmed by Fan Lixin, who also takes credits as d.p. and co-editor, the pic laudably adopts an intimate, personal approach to a subject -- hardworking Chinese garment workers -- that's been covered in more hectoring fashion elsewhere."

"Focusing on one family, it’s a compassionate look at fractured lives lived in cold, if beautiful, surroundings."

"Tells the story of a family caught, and possibly crushed, between the past and the future--a story that, on its own, is moving, even heartbreaking. Multiplied by 130 million, it becomes a terrifying and sobering panorama of the present."

"Last Train Home suggests that the times they are a-changin'. The rulers of China may someday regret that they distributed the works of Marx so generously."

"An expert, unobtrusive observer, Fan disappears inside his own film and allows us to get completely inside his subjects' lives."

"This personal account of one family's struggle with disconnect surely warrants a viewing, but those not already interested in the overarching subject matter will find it just as gratifying at home as in the theatre."

"Lixin plays up the atmospheric underclass misery in service of a beautifully shot, heartbreaking vérité narrative about generation gaps and culture clashes."