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100The film's climax involves a father and son reunion that is tense, tragic and, finally, as transcendent as Mohammad himself.
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100This is a transcendent film, deeply committed and beautifully wrought. It will make anyone who sees it look at the world with new eyes.
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100The story is spun forth ravishingly, tenderly, and urgently, with a captivating mix of beauty, spare sophistication, and profound humanity.
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100While never slow, the film feels quiet and spacious, like a prayer.
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93It's an exhilarating display of filmic artistry.
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90A beautifully told story of a child's innocence and faith, filmed with exquisite detail and stunning cinematography
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90This miniature epic is a film that, like its young hero, will enrich those who peer into its poignant heart.
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88A family film that shames the facile commercialism of a product like "Pokemon" and its value system based on power and greed.It is made with delicacy and beauty.
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88The simplicity and idealism of The Color of Paradise are part of what makes it so attractive to near-jaded palates here. There are no evil characters in the film.
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88Another perfect little gem from Iran in which the simplest story unleashes a torrent of emotion.
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80Like a Hollywood dolt, Majidi strives to overwhelm us with emphasis, but it's the reality he was savvy to load his movie with that's touching.
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80A beautiful film from Iran explores beauty both physical and spiritual.
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80A heartbreaker, plain and simple.
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80Reputed to be sentimental crowd pleaser, for better and for worse.
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78Less a film than a lyrical, naturalistic tone poem.
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75Doesn't have the emotional heft of his "Children of Paradise," but it's still moving.
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75Seductively pastoral but also a bit slight, the movie saves its best scene for the very end.
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75Offers a charming reinterpretation of what it means to look for happiness and all the unexpected places that it may be found.
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75It's so beautiful and moving and simple that I'm willing to forgive Majidi his contrivances.
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70The surprisingly tragic climax may make it rough going for kids too young to grasp the film's comforting message.
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70The performances are revelatory.
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70Westerners may find the religious aspects wearying and a little fantastic. The Color of Paradise is both parable and fable, a retelling of Isaac and Abraham.
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70As worthy and moving as The Color of Paradise is, it is not entirely free of the manipulative, the arbitrary and the downright punitive.
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70Leans a bit too much toward the lachrymose and has a wrong-note final image.
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50Although it has a good heart and a warm spirit, this prettily filmed drama is more sentimental and manipulative than earlier Iranian films on youth-related subjects.
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NaveenA.10This is a wonderful movie. It is sheer poetry on cellulide. The last scene brings tears in viewer's eyes.