Ip Man

...as an exaggerated, myth-making martial-arts movie, Ip Man is often thrilling. Sammo Hung’s fight choreography is clever and exciting...

The action is enthralling even if the storyline doesn't always have the ring of truth about it.

There's a pleasingly old-fashioned air to all the flying drop-kicks and straight-finger jabs...

Just as historically erroneous, morally reductive, and narratively clumsy as we'd wish of a film about Bruce Lee's mentor, Ip Man is nonetheless an explosive exercise in bare-knuckled myth-biography.