Year of the Dog

By Will Boisvert
Published on October 22, 2008 04:00AM EDT

In Henry Chang’s Year of the Dog, NYPD detective Jack Yu patrols a gang-war-roiled Chinatown stocked with whores, wizened fortune-tellers, and take-out places.

Movie Pitch: An Asian-flavored The Wire.

Lowdown: A richly atmospheric panorama of New York’s immigrant demimonde. B+

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