Osama
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83 out of 100

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7.2 out of 10

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  • Starring: Marina Golbahari, Mohamad Nader Khadjeh, Zubaida Sahar
  • Summary: A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. Feeling she has no choice, the mother disguises her daughter as a boy. Now called Osama, the girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. (United Artists)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Superb performances from a nonprofessional cast. It's gripping, timely, and revealing.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    80
    Rarely has there been so obscenely precise a depiction of ravaged innocence. This young girl has nothing to live for--and an entire life ahead of her in which to live it.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    The film serves as a potent reminder of what conditions were like in Afghanistan before the U.S. bombing campaign ended the Taliban's reign of terror, and, as such, its timing couldn't be any better.
  4. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    80
    The performances are credible, but set-pieces like the water-cannoning of a procession of burkha-clad protesters are also impeccably judged.

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    women used to experience safety and freedom in the time of taliban and the regime was not6 evil as being presented in the western media to justify the killing of innocent people in Afghanistan by America after they themselves conducted the twin tower blasts see loose change to know the truth.… Collapse

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