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A Moment of Innocence
Metascore
70 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
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  1. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    100
    Turns into something like a screwball farce, an intimate, self-aware one.
  2. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    92
    Normal ideas of truth, illusion, and representation are sent into the meat grinder, and the result is consistently disarming and beautiful.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    90
    A fascinating humanist experiment and investigation in its own right, full of warmth and humor as well as mystery.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Leslie Camhi
    80
    A meditation-brilliant, humorous, and moving-on history and memory.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Finds the impassioned Makhmalbaf in a more contemplative, even whimsical, mood than usual.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    80
    Almost forbiddingly austere.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    A fascinating fictional documentary.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    Some wonderful films have come out of Iran in the past few years, but A Moment of Innocence, by highly regarded director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is too smug and too self-indulgent to count as one of them.
  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    0
    Muddled and endless.
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