“Kids these days,” sighs the lead character in “Mr. Six,” sounding like the grizzled hero in a late-career Clint Eastwood movie. Now well into his fifties, the neighborhood peacekeeper — played with ...

Mr. Six is a grumpy, old fixture on his Beijing back street, ready to scold or shoot a withering look. But as we are frequently reminded in director Guan Hu’s character study “Mr. Six,” he was one bad ...

Chinese director Guan Hu's Mr Six is a comic, elegiac film that never settles into one particular genre or mood. Its central character is a former gangster, Zhang Xuejun (Feng Xiaogang) known as Mr ...

The travails of an old gangster in a contemporary Beijing overrun with privileged brats is at the heart of the largely winning “Mr. Six.” Among other things, this gritty and sometimes acerbic film ...

Cast of Mr. Six including Feng Xiaogang (2nd from left) and Li Yifeng (3rd from left) Photo: Courtesy of Huayi Bros. Media Group Chinese popular heartthrob Li Yifeng attended a press conference ...

A poster for Mr. Six featuring Feng Xiaogang (Left) and Li Yifeng Photo: CFP Before the premiere of Mr Six (Chinese title: Laopao'r) on Thursday, some film critics were saying that while the film was ...

Honor among thieves is a thing of the past in the new China, where cash trumps respect. By THR Staff Flying the flag in prestige slots at Venice and Toronto, Guan Hu’s Mr. Six (Lao Pao Er) is China’s ...

I still don’t know who Mr. Six is. I went to Six Flags Great America on Friday with high hopes of using some investigative journalism skills to answer the question half of America’s been asking: Who ...

In this unusually fight-skittish action-movie scenario, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang plays a reformed criminal struck by how much the codes of behavior have changed when his son is kidnapped. Though ...