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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a parable about modern Iran, and like many recent Iranian films it leaves its meaning to the viewer." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 03/02/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...seeps under your skin as you wait for its grim, taciturn protagonist to detonate.... offers no simple answers beyond the implication that in contemporary Iran, men in uniform are viewed as the enemy." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 01/04/12 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Writer/director Rafi Pitts turns images of everyday urban sights -- plaza steps, concrete apartment houses -- into reflections of Ali's sense of emptiness and entrapment.... sorrowful and scary." (Read the full review...) 275 words, 01/06/12 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...could do with more of a back story. Why, for example, was Ali in prison? And was his wife a protester or just a woman who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? But these are minor questions in light of the film's overall potency." (Read the full review...) 259 words, 01/04/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a parable about modern Iran, and like many recent Iranian films it leaves its meaning to the viewer." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 03/02/12 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: OUTSTANDING "Filmed during the months leading up to the 2009 presidential election in Iran... seethes with fury -- and anticipates the blood that would spill after the vote." (Read the full review...) 216 words, 01/04/12
Ron Lattanzio, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "If Michelangelo Antonioni had shot in Iran, with native actors and more suspense, it would look something like this... unsettling imagery elevates 'The Hunter' to the level of pure cinema." (Read the full review...) 138 words, 03/30/12
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: OUTSTANDING "Filmed during the months leading up to the 2009 presidential election in Iran... seethes with fury -- and anticipates the blood that would spill after the vote." (Read the full review...) 216 words, 01/04/12 Noel Murray, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "...it's clear that writer-director Rafi Pitts is attempting something a little different from the usual restrained Iranian neo-realism." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 01/05/12 Chuck Bowen, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's clear that Rafi Pitts is a budding filmmaker and actor of immense talent who should, barring the potential perversities of circumstance, make a film of considerable and uniting power." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 01/01/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...seeps under your skin as you wait for its grim, taciturn protagonist to detonate.... offers no simple answers beyond the implication that in contemporary Iran, men in uniform are viewed as the enemy." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 01/04/12 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: MODERATE "If you find it convenient to think of Iran more as a bad dream than as a perceptible place, this is the film for you." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 01/02/12 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...a lean, disturbing and beautifully photographed thriller... a movie about a lonely guy in the big city with a car, a hunting rifle and nothing to lose.... something like the Iranian equivalent of 'Falling Down'..." (Read the full review...) 501 words, 01/04/12
Alissa Simon, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...the indirect storytelling allows different readings: Some may find it a political statement of sorts, while others dismiss it as irritatingly obscure and uninvolving." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 02/16/10 Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "It's gorgeously shot, and the weight of the Iranian present can be palpably felt, but for most viewers this will not be enough.... it's impeccable on a purely formal level." (Read the full review...) 504 words, 10/14/10 Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...seeps under your skin as you wait for its grim, taciturn protagonist to detonate.... offers no simple answers beyond the implication that in contemporary Iran, men in uniform are viewed as the enemy." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 01/04/12
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