
It is a sad world. A Chinese taxi driver, who was was forced into an accident, suffers the consequences as he finds himself victimized by humans, companies, the system and materialism. With the greed and cruelty of the society pushing him underwater he tries one thing after the other to rescue himself. Yet, when it rains, it pours.... (Full plot summary below)
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It is a sad world. A Chinese taxi driver, who was was forced into an accident, suffers the consequences as he finds himself victimized by humans, companies, the system and materialism. With the greed and cruelty of the society pushing him underwater he tries one thing after the other to rescue himself. Yet, when it rains, it pours.
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| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe ending, while not inapt, also delves into a realm of cinematic overstatement that the movie had up until that time been careful to avoid. While disappointing, it doesn’t wholly mitigate the power of what has come before. This is an engrossing and unnerving film. |
| The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenDirector Ma has made a quietly merciless picture, a horror movie, really, about a decent man, an ordinary man, left alone, bereft, embittered, ruined by his act of decency. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenJohnny Ma's Old Stone is a lean, nasty entry in a subgenre that could be termed the bureaucratic noir. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniLean, mean, and utterly compelling, Ma’s beautifully paced and remarkably understated 80-minute thriller Old Stone is a Kafkaesque satire about the soul-crushing effects of bureaucracy. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoWhile this final segment is the least satisfying, it’s impossible not to be impressed with what Ma accomplishes in the film’s brisk 80 minutes. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele[A] stunningly assured, darkly gripping first feature. |
| VarietyMaggie LeeChanneling the style of gritty mainland independent films but without the usual longueurs, the film deftly morphs into a suspense thriller with Dostoevskyan undertones. |
| The Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiDefying its somewhat generic-sounding title, Johnny Ma's gripping criminal thriller Old Stone deploys powerful performances and eerie imagery. |
| IndiewireDavid EhrlichToo obvious and haphazard to boil over with the full caustic fury of its premise, Old Stone is nevertheless a bluntly effective thriller that makes great use of its gritty noir touches. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisMr. Ma paints a persuasively bleak scene that could use more psychological and philosophical nuance to go with its painstaking grimness. |