| 100 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A celebration of the human spirit nothing short of sublime.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Examiner
Kiarostami's genius is elusive. His films may be unknowable, but they are undeniably hypnotic, charismatic.
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| 100 |
Village Voice
To my mind, the greatest film by Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami.
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| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor
A full-fledged masterpiece.
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| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
A film poem of sometimes humbling beauty: a movie that opens up a new world to us - in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan - with an enchanting freshness and austerity of vision.
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| 93 |
Mr. Showbiz
The best film we'll see this year.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Its effects seem more like those of a poem or a piece of music than a movie. Requires the reverent darkness and communal solitude of a theater.
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| 90 |
Variety
Takes the refined work of Iranian helmer Abbas Kiarostami up another notch to ever more metaphoric ground.
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| 90 |
Film.com
David D'Arcy
Will test your powers of attention. The effort is worth every minute.
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| 90 |
Time
The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous.
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| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
If you've had enough of the loony tunes coming from Florida, this piece of absurdist serio-comedy is the perfect picture.
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| 88 |
New York Daily News
A brilliant if slow-paced movie about one man's unwitting journey into adulthood.
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| 88 |
Boston Globe
It's a meditation on life and death, but it's less somber and more light-handed, subtle, and mischievously funny.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
"Nothing happening" is everything happening between the lines, in the gap created between what is unstated onscreen and what we bring to the story ourselves.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
No doubt some viewers could find fault with the slack pacing, though it's hardly inappropriate for a film that's fundamentally about emerging from frustration and stasis into a state of grace.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
The impact of its finish has been dissipated by too much meandering along the way.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Poetic but tedious and all but plotless.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Film is often too subtle and languorous for its own purposes: At times, it's close to soporific.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
On the surface, nothing really happens, but to call it a nonevent would be to miss the point entirely.
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