metacritic.com: Day I Became a Woman, The

Starring Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Shabnam Toloui, Azizeh Sedighi, Hassan Nebhan, Sirous Kahvarinegad, and Badr Iravani

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100	Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker Achieves its social commentary through passion and poetry.
100	Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt Charged with humanity and compassion.
93	Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson So breathtakingly textural, so empathic in its images, that it transcends its context and achieves timelessness.
91	Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman Creates a flow of symbolism so potent, so transporting in its physicality, that its impact all but transcends its righteous liberal ''meaning.''
90	Film.com Tom Keogh An exquisite trio.
90	The New York Times Stephen Holden What appears on the screen has a starkness that is almost indelible.
90	Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas Breathtaking reverie worthy of Fellini.
89	Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman The film is dignified rather than dour, full of rich imagery.
88	Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan Underlines the nightmare of entrapment so vividly captured in The Day I Became a Woman.
88	Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow Takes 20 minutes to burst into fierce, inspired filmmaking.
88	Boston Globe Jay Carr What you're not prepared for in Marziyeh Meshkini's astonishing debut film is the way its central image instantly leaps into the pantheon of world cinema with a rightness and an urgency that glue your eyes to the screen.
88	New York Daily News Jami Bernard This powerful, compact trilogy speaks volumes about women in Iran.
88	Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert One of the strengths of this film is that it never pauses to explain.
88	Chicago Tribune Mark Caro Announces the arrival of an undeniable talent (Meshkini) that has come of age.
80	Chicago Reader Jean-Pierre Coursodon Compelling collection of three loosely connected vignettes.
80	Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan Short on drama but long on poetry.
80	Washington Post Rita Kempley An episodic drama rich in sly humor and symbolic imagery.
80	Variety Deborah Young A powerful statement about the social oppression of women in today's Iran.
80	Village Voice J. Hoberman Opens cute and poignant, turns wildly visceral, and ends in a burst of magical realism.
75	San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann Graceful compositions and slow, easy pacing.
75	New York Post Jonathan Foreman Slight but affecting triptych.
70	New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer A spare film, with little dialogue but a lot to say.
70	TV Guide Ken Fox A bold, vibrant piece of filmmaking.
50	LA Weekly David Chute Promising, if uneven, first feature.

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