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76 out of 100

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8.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: Hassan Tantai, Nelofer Pazira
  • Summary: Set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, this is the story of Nafas (Pazira), a young female journalist who escaped the country to grow up in Canada and who returns incognito, smuggled in, to save her younger sister.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    Presented without preachiness or affectation, Kandahar is a short, matter-of-fact visit to hell.
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    100
    Makhmalbaf's astounding and haunting imagery tells a story of devastation, desperation and poverty.
  3. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    60
    A film worth your time, and if you know going into it that there's no closure, it'll give you all the more freedom to enjoy what IS there.

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. masoudb.
    9
    Good.
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  2. RubyQ
    6
    An important look at an oppressive, war-ravaged nation, but my God the lead character (an Afghan-Canadian woman trying to find her sister) acts like a stupid Westerner blundering around clueless in a third world war zone. She takes off her burqua at every opportunity and even waves around a tape-recorder in a crowd of Afghan women. Pushed the boundaries of plausibility in order to set up explanations for viewers. High marks for being eye-opening but low for common sense.… Expand
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