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78 out of 100

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  • Summary: When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. (Shooting Gallery)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    The tale is simply told but stunningly photographed and superbly acted in the best tradition of modern Iranian cinema.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    Presents us with characters of such humanity and dignity that it begins to seem obscene that until now we haven't exactly given all that much thought to the Kurds.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    60
    Single-minded, sometimes harrowing.

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