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Alynda Wheat, People: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...so affecting, it's not to be missed." (Read the full review...) 82 words, 01/05/12 Richard Corliss, Time: OUTSTANDING "...fascinating and seductive... reveals (exposes, if you like) modern Iranians as soldiers in an implicit war on many fronts: secular vs. religious, urban vs. rural, middle-class vs. working-class.... boasts superb ensemble acting... just about perfect..." (Read the full review...) 1,323 words, 12/30/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...devastating.... its themes resonate universally.... not only is it worth seeking out, it's one you need to see with friends because it invites -- or rather demands -- debate afterward." (Read the full review...) 556 words, 01/05/12 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the film wraps us, with stunning directness, in the complex folds of its characters' passions... [It] evolves into the most organic of thrillers.... a work of neorealism as tricky as a Rubik's Cube." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 01/06/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "With rare subtlety and transforming art, the remarkable writer-director Asghar Farhadi takes us into the emotional heart of modern Iran.... a landmark film. No way will you be able to get it out of your head." (Read the full review...) 168 words, 01/06/12 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "From the first scene, we're instantly hooked by this window into contemporary Iran.... Realistically messy, unexpectedly devastating and as tense as any Hitchcock thriller..." (Read the full review...) 408 words, 12/30/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...provides a useful portrait of Iran today. Some inflamed American political rhetoric has portrayed it as a rogue nation eager to start nuclear war.... But this film portrays a more nuanced nation, and its decent characters are trying to do the right thing." (Read the full review...) 783 words, 01/27/12 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an almost classic story of a wrong move in the wrong place at the wrong time, and how the specific gravity of a circumscribed situation can shift and turn innocuous actions performed with the best intentions almost deadly." (Read the full review...) 524 words, 12/19/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of the most satisfying non-English films to reach North American screens during the past twelve months." (Read the full review...) 1,012 words, 01/24/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...tightly structured, emotionally astute.... a rigorously honest movie about the difficulties of being honest.... a story that quietly and shrewdly combines elements of family melodrama and legal thriller." (Read the full review...) 765 words, 12/30/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "The power in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's familial-social drama is felt in closeups.... this methodical but passionate movie shows everything pulled apart." (Read the full review...) 299 words, 12/28/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...totally foreign and achingly familiar.... exhilarating..." (Read the full review...) 731 words, 12/30/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "A less ruminative director could have filmed the same story in 90 minutes, and nothing about 'A Separation' lifts it above quality TV dramas. But these days there is so much quality television that it's a compliment to say a film is good enough to watch on TV..." (Read the full review...) 477 words, 12/30/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a singular achievement, a piece of realist cinema with the pull of a suspense thriller, given its characters' array of deceits, troubles, burdens and miseries both self-inflicted and society-reinforced." (Read the full review...) 614 words, 01/27/12 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A stunning film whose simple premise explodes and radiates into a galaxy of unforeseeable complications, conflicts and emotions." (Read the full review...) 401 words, 01/27/12 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: OUTSTANDING "...sparely photographed but rich in horribleness. What makes it so good is that no one is bad. These humans, desperate to do right, are caught up in a perfect storm of inhumanity. The evil is in the ecosystem." (Read the full review...) 709 words, 01/09/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...provides a useful portrait of Iran today. Some inflamed American political rhetoric has portrayed it as a rogue nation eager to start nuclear war.... But this film portrays a more nuanced nation, and its decent characters are trying to do the right thing." (Read the full review...) 783 words, 01/27/12 J. Hoberman, Village Voice: EXCELLENT "...an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box.... [Writer/director Asghar] Farhadi resists the notion of narrative closure. As the great Sam Fuller wrapped up 'Run of the Arrow,' 'The end of this story will be written by you!' " (Read the full review...) 646 words, 12/28/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The clothing and customs may seem foreign, but the issues of 'A Separation' are universal." (Read the full review...) 608 words, 01/20/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a superb detective story but, being set in contemporary Iran, it's like no other you've seen before. Those Agatha Christie questions are all there - who did what to whom and why? - but the answers are the least important part of the film." (Read the full review...) 750 words, 01/20/12 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "...captures like no other film the ways that parents unwittingly manipulate and even emotionally terrorize their kids, convinced that they're acting in the child's best interest.... Miss this masterpiece at your peril." (Read the full review...) 195 words, 11/03/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Superbly acted and crafted, with an ending that will provoke arguments... a great film that will haunt you." (Read the full review...) 121 words, 01/19/12
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an absorbing, utterly of-the-moment movie that's confident enough to leave filmgoers without pat resolutions but with plenty of hauntingly provocative questions." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 01/20/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's small. It's real. And it's deeply moving." (Read the full review...) 509 words, 01/27/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...stunningly acted, emotionally universal and culturally specific in ways that make it all the more engrossing." (Read the full review...) 461 words, 02/03/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a great movie... The acting is brilliant -- [Peyman] Moadi and [Leila] Hatami are especially good -- and the direction masterful [Asghar Farhadi]." (Read the full review...) 724 words, 02/03/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a trenchant emotional thriller that you watch in dread, awe, and amazing aggravation.... The situation that unfolds approaches the absurdity of farce but denies the relief and release of humor. It's a tragic farce. No option or choice is to be envied." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 01/27/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Even when the film moves towards its conclusion, we're still unraveling the complications. Did he do what he's been accused of? Is she telling the truth of what happened? We can't believe our own eyes." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 12/30/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...touches on religious strictures and the role of women in Iran, but it does so with a light hand and not a twitch of condemnation." (Read the full review...) 382 words, 01/20/12 John Hartl, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A major breakthrough in Tehran-based cinema... [Director Asghar] Farhadi's fifth feature film demonstrates a technical assurance and a storytelling gift that make you wonder why his previous work hasn't been widely seen." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 02/03/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a portrait of an essential and sympathetic human dilemma, and in that it's both real and timeless in ways that transcend borders, cultures and languages." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 02/03/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a plaintive fable of the human condition that unites us." (Read the full review...) 321 words, 02/17/12 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...flawlessly acted and difficult to predict. I'm always impressed when a movie informs about a foreign culture while it entertains, and this one is powerful art in that regard." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 03/01/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...it's breathtaking.... one of the best films I've ever seen. And I've seen a few films." (Read the full review...) 500 words, 02/24/12 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...succeeds so well that the end result is pulverizing. Sometimes, in an attempt to do the best we can for the people we love, we end up wreaking irreparable damage." (Read the full review...) 743 words, 01/27/12
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: EXCELLENT "...an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box.... [Writer/director Asghar] Farhadi resists the notion of narrative closure. As the great Sam Fuller wrapped up 'Run of the Arrow,' 'The end of this story will be written by you!' " (Read the full review...) 646 words, 12/28/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Iranian cinema continues to produce some of the world's subtlest and most illuminating films about the relationships between men and women, and the conflicts inherent in all social units, starting with the family." (Read the full review...) 297 words, 01/26/12 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "...captures like no other film the ways that parents unwittingly manipulate and even emotionally terrorize their kids, convinced that they're acting in the child's best interest.... Miss this masterpiece at your peril." (Read the full review...) 195 words, 11/03/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Beyond the impeccable performances and direction, it's foremost an exceptional piece of screenwriting, so finely wrought that the drama seems guided by an invisible hand." (Read the full review...) 399 words, 12/29/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "...so spare and unfussy that, save for the occasional camera jiggle, you're barely aware of the filmmaking at all.... packs a lot of quiet anger and frustration... a quiet cry of anguish." (Read the full review...) 711 words, 12/29/11 Nick Schager, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...superb.... [Writer/director Asghar] Farhadi exudes sincere empathy for his tale's competing POVs, taking time to understand and acknowledge the root motivations of his various players..." (Read the full review...) 711 words, 09/29/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Superbly acted and crafted, with an ending that will provoke arguments... a great film that will haunt you." (Read the full review...) 121 words, 01/19/12
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a world-class masterpiece.... Flawlessly crafted, brilliantly performed and elegantly photographed, it follows a succession of disastrous consequences that flow from the marital split, and that pose profound moral questions without venturing judgments." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 12/30/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...tightly structured, emotionally astute.... a rigorously honest movie about the difficulties of being honest.... a story that quietly and shrewdly combines elements of family melodrama and legal thriller." (Read the full review...) 765 words, 12/30/11 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: OUTSTANDING "You feel for almost everyone involved, yet you don't quite know what to think, and there is something strangely exhausting in watching the most minor events.... The miracle of 'A Separation' is that it doesn't spare any of its characters, nor does it seek to indict them. It is a democratic portrait of a theocratic world." (Read the full review...) 1,180 words, 01/02/12 Bob Mondello, NPR: OUTSTANDING "...when you consider how heavily censored filmmakers are in Iran, director Asghar Farhadi's accomplishment starts to seem downright astonishing.... a film that captures the drama and suspense of real life as urgently as any picture released this year." (Read the full review...) 430 words, 12/29/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...totally foreign and achingly familiar.... exhilarating..." (Read the full review...) 731 words, 12/30/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: OUTSTANDING "...a quiet reminder of how good it's possible for movies to be. You don't always have to sacrifice complexity for suspense, or formal sophistication for visceral power. It's possible, if rare, to come across a movie that has it all." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 12/30/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...remarkable... something close to a contemporary masterwork.... a profoundly humane work with the emotional payoff and far-sighted tragic vision of a great novel." (Read the full review...) 1,273 words, 12/29/11
Alissa Simon, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "Tense and narratively complex, formally dense and morally challenging.... casts a revealing light on contempo Iranian society, taking on issues of gender, class, justice and honor..." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 02/15/11 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "Apparently simple on a narrative level yet morally, psychologically and socially complex, it succeeds in bringing Iranian society into focus in a way few other films have done." (Read the full review...) 693 words, 02/15/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...totally foreign and achingly familiar.... exhilarating..." (Read the full review...) 731 words, 12/30/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...goes beyond its specific tale of divorce to achieve a higher level of relevancy and universality.... a provocative film that raises timely questions, instead of imposing ideas and answers, questions that go beyond the current living conditions in Iran." (Read the full review...) 551 words, 12/05/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...tightly structured, emotionally astute.... a rigorously honest movie about the difficulties of being honest.... a story that quietly and shrewdly combines elements of family melodrama and legal thriller." (Read the full review...) 765 words, 12/30/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a world-class masterpiece.... Flawlessly crafted, brilliantly performed and elegantly photographed, it follows a succession of disastrous consequences that flow from the marital split, and that pose profound moral questions without venturing judgments." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 12/30/11
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