Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.
It is with gravity and levity and incomparable grace that Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - by light years the best movie of 2000.
The film may be too talky for action-minded viewers and too fantastic for more serious spectators, but it brings appealing twists - including a feminist sensibility - to the venerable martial-arts genre.
