A Hero

Name: A Hero
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: January 7, 2022
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Alireza Jahandideh, Amir Jadidi, Ehsan Goodarzi, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Maryam Shahdaei

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A Contracorriente Films | Release Date: January 7, 2022 | PG-13

Starring: Alireza Jahandideh, Amir Jadidi, Ehsan Goodarzi, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Maryam Shahdaei, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sahar Goldust, Sarina Farhadi

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On Prime Video January 21, 2022.

Summary: Rahim is in jail for a debt he hasn't been able to pay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint in exchange for paying back part of the debt. Rahim is then confronted with a crisis he would never have imagined.

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 127 min

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Joe Morgenstern

Jan 6, 2022

This astute, subversively funny film fills a broad canvas. Mainly, though, it’s about long division, the all-too-human state of being permanently and unwittingly split down the middle. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Jan 6, 2022

Even as the story's inevitable reckoning descends, Farhadi allows his modest morality tale to take on a note of battered, ambiguous hope: a cautionary fable whose purest notes ring poignantly, painfully true. Read full review

Chris Evangelista

Jan 6, 2022

In Asghar Farhadi's fascinating, complex A Hero, nothing is simple. And no good deed goes unpunished — if it was even a "good deed" to begin with. Read full review

Deborah Young

Jul 13, 2021

The film’s simple, lower-class setting is met with equally direct camerawork, lighting and editing. This feels like the farthest Farhadi has come from his stage work and the sometimes unconvincing dramatic elements that occasionally creep into his films. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Jan 10, 2022

By a useful coincidence, A Hero arrives in cinemas (for viewers hardy enough to visit them) in the wake of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Watch one after the other and you may decide, as I did, that A Hero is the more Shakespearean of the two. Coen’s film is powerful but hermetic, sealed off within its stylized designs, whereas Farhadi reaches back to The Merchant of Venice and pulls the play’s impassioned arguments into the melee of the here and now. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Jan 5, 2022

Sometimes the smallest things can get away from us. Farhadi knows this, and reminds us, again and again in this outstanding film. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jan 3, 2022

The best aspect of “A Hero,” and probably the aspect which Farhadi would most like us to contemplate, is the internal journey of Rahim, who, over the course of his difficulties, slowly and belatedly seems to come into his manhood. Read full review

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Notfan

Feb 6, 2022

Has a lot of depth inside it and also it's one of the best Farhadi's movie.

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ArmieKashi

Jan 8, 2022

Absloute home run from farhadi ! Gonna keep it short and simple : i can't see how this script can be matched . I spent HOURS trying to find a hole , an unreasonable event or uncalled action in the course of the plot and found nothing . The story was engaging and humane and maked you keepAbsloute home run from farhadi ! Gonna keep it short and simple : i can't see how this script can be matched . I spent HOURS trying to find a hole , an unreasonable event or uncalled action in the course of the plot and found nothing . The story was engaging and humane and maked you keep wondering , who is a hero ?… Expand

6 of 8 users found this helpful62

Neez1

Jan 24, 2022

An outstanding film. Amazing character development that is very rare in cinema, a very complex but realistic plot. It is the best Farhadi film since a separation.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

TravisBickleJr

Jan 21, 2022

Usually i am no fan of foreign movies , but after i saw the man himself : HIDEO KOJIMA praise it and post it on instagram there left no doubt in my mind ! i watched it and now am really invested in farhadi's cinema . best movie i watched in a long time. STREAM IT RIGHT NOW ON AMAZON PRIME !!

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

DianePoot

Jan 9, 2022

انه فيلم جيد جدا استمتعت به حقا اصغر فرهادي هو فخر الشرق الاوسط. من الامارات العربية المتحدة

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Sono_Momo

Feb 4, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This film shows an in-depth analysis of changing. Become a popular hero and then lose self-esteem and finally, lose humanity! The film reminded me that I live in a world full of doubts.… Expand

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Amirhosein2005

Jan 21, 2022

The acting and the engaging storyline are admirable .... but due to the repetitive nature of The way the story is told , it is one of Farhadi's mediocre films.

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