The Last Emperor a "truly great epic"
Scott Tobias writes on The Last Emperor in The Onion A.V. Club: "The new four-disc Criterion edition makes an imposing and mostly convincing argument for the film as a truly great epic, one which attempts to capture the political turmoil that gripped 20th-century China without getting too reductive or bogged down in minutiae. Through the story of Pu Yi, the footnote of an emperor who ended the Ching Dynasty, Bertolucci tells the larger story of an era where individuals were caught in the swells of history."
