Iron Island
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Metascore
74 out of 100

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5.5 out of 10

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  • Summary: The story of a community located on an abandoned oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, Iron Island chronicles the lives of the homeless people living on this floating village. (Kino International)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    100
    Director Mohammad Rasoulof has fashioned the ultimate metaphor for a society adrift from its culture.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    This is not a typical Iranian production. Simultaneously deeply allegorical and concretely physical, this striking film is not a typical production, period.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    A thrilling example of the cunning political allegory woven into vivid concretism that invigorates contemporary Iranian cinema, Mohammad Rasoulof's Iron Island takes as its monumental central image a sinking ship, symbol of decaying autocracy and the faint hope of liberation.
  4. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    60
    Well-photographed and adequately directed and acted, Iron Island is (painless) propaganda, informing us about domestic peace and goodwill. And this film, too, leaves us with a question: why does the currently aggressive Iran want the world, especially our chunk of it, to see what it is "really" like?

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. MarvinW.
    9
    Extraordinary!
  2. MarcK.
    4
    Once again snookered by high MetaCritic rating. I suppose there were supposed to be layers of meaning underneath the general story, but I guess I missed just about all of that.… Expand
  3. MikeG.
    0
    Another movie I saw at the Philadelphia Film Festival, this movie made absolutely no sense, even from the allegorical standpoint from which it was surely intended. The movie's condemnation of leaders and the people who blindly follow those leaders was at times too dense and at other times too simplistic to be followed. A larger problem was that the characters failed to provide any kind of interest, not even as broad archtypes. This movie just left me drained and disappointed.… Expand

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