Chinese Boxes is a 1984 British-West German crime mystery thriller film directed by Chris Petit and starring Will Patton and Robbie Coltrane.
[citation needed] Years later the movie was screened in 2013 as part of Petit's Museum of Loneliness project, also in the United Kingdom.
[6] Derek Malcolm reviewed Chinese Boxes for The Guardian, commenting that it "looks good and is at least lively".
[7] The Independent remarked that the movie was "a quintessential Eighties riddle-thriller with a hint of Godard's Made in USA in its comic-strip flatness: it features a showdown in a paper-pulping yard, a foretaste of Petit's later preoccupation with pulped and discarded culture.
"[8] Chinese Boxes has also received a 2013 review from Chris Darke in Sight & Sound.