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Christy Lemire, Associated Press: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a powerful statement about nothing less than the paramount importance of freedom and the driving urge for artistic expression.... simultaneously depressing as hell and brimming with hope and defiance." (Read the full review...) 474 words, 02/28/12 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a great film, and a triumph of creativity and courage over repression.... a stirring demonstration of how just living one's daily life can be a work of art." (Read the full review...) 106 words, 02/24/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...leads to a final scene of overwhelming power.... It simply happens, and then the film is over, having nothing more to say. Because, after all, it is not a film." (Read the full review...) 721 words, 04/13/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "How did Mr. Panahi do this? I'm at a bit of a loss to explain, to tell you the truth, since my job is to review movies, and this, obviously, is something different: a masterpiece in a form that does not yet exist." (Read the full review...) 980 words, 02/29/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "If not a film, what shall we call Jafar Panahi's documentary? A missive, a provocation, a plea? Regardless, the impact is undeniable." (Read the full review...) 143 words, 03/02/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Fascinating for what it signifies as much as what it shows... illustrates how Panahi is struggling to stay alive creatively and, paradoxically, can't help but demonstrate how much of a natural filmmaker he is." (Read the full review...) 645 words, 03/02/12 Kyle Smith, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "So there is courage and cheekiness here. What there is not is a story, or much insight or even anger... Panahi drifts around his home outlining his ideas for another movie, which doesn't sound terribly political or interesting." (Read the full review...) 300 words, 02/29/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Panahi has made an essay with his fellow filmmaker Mojtaba Mirtahmasb on what it means to be under house arrest and under the thumb of the Iranian culture ministry." (Read the full review...) 416 words, 04/13/12 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...has an ending that's as dramatic as anything made by any director making a film, which is something Panahi accomplishes with a bit of a wink, and no small amount of courage." (Read the full review...) 376 words, 03/09/12 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: OUTSTANDING "...an extraordinary film, and one of the few in which boredom in the face of static camerawork and lack of narrative adds to the emotional wallop." (Read the full review...) 323 words, 02/27/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...leads to a final scene of overwhelming power.... It simply happens, and then the film is over, having nothing more to say. Because, after all, it is not a film." (Read the full review...) 721 words, 04/13/12 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "It might be fair to describe 'This Is Not a Film' as a blatant act of rebellion, but it also stands as a good-faith attempt to work within Jafar Panahi's politically imposed boundaries." (Read the full review...) 861 words, 02/29/12 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "This 75-minute home movie, shot by his colleague Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, and partly on Panahi's iPhone, is deft and ironic, mixing banal reality with poignant metaphor in a typically Iranian style." (Read the full review...) 127 words, 09/07/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a cry from the heart of an artist compelled to create, tell stories and respond to hostile, confounding realities." (Read the full review...) 516 words, 05/18/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...what real courage in filmmaking looks like.... may not be what we're used to in a movie, but in many ways it's much, much more." (Read the full review...) 487 words, 04/13/12 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of the most eloquent blows against a dictatorship ever filmed... it forces you to think about everything that can't be said and everything that's just off-screen." (Read the full review...) 774 words, 05/04/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Since the movie was finished, Mirtahmasb, the director who helped Panahi make it - and then smuggled it out of Iran inside a cake - has been sentenced for counter-revolutionary acts as well. Panahi's appeals have been denied." (Read the full review...) 497 words, 02/29/12 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...isn't just a film, it's a strong one. It's also an act of political defiance, a moving personal document and a meditation on what film is and can be." (Read the full review...) 405 words, 04/06/12 Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...remarkable... an almost unclassifiable act of subtle defiance against an oppressive authority, is, in fact, very much a film." (Read the full review...) 275 words, 04/13/12
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "It might be fair to describe 'This Is Not a Film' as a blatant act of rebellion, but it also stands as a good-faith attempt to work within Jafar Panahi's politically imposed boundaries." (Read the full review...) 861 words, 02/29/12 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "It can't be a film, because the acclaimed director Jafar Panahi ('The Circle,' etc.) has been ordered not to make any by the Iranian theocrats..." (Read the full review...) 117 words, 05/03/12 Scott Tobias, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...documents a day in the life of the director Jafar Panahi as he's stuck in his apartment under house arrest... pleasing mainly just as a message-in-a-bottle from a restless, persecuted artist -- that is, until the amazing closing shot..." (Read the full review...) 214 words, 09/09/11 Cynthia Fuchs, Pop Matters: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...film is not only a collaborative art, but also a process, understood in watching it as much as in making it.... the film poses the question of what matters, how space and time merge, why you watch films." (Read the full review...) 912 words, 02/29/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "...so technically modest that it almost isn't a film. Yet in its simplicity it's as direct as a laser beam, underscoring why Panahi is considered so dangerous by his country's government: The difference between just looking and really seeing is second nature to him." (Read the full review...) 808 words, 02/29/12 Phil Coldiron, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...both a forceful assertion of the most stifling brand of auteurism and a radical reconfiguration of its political potential." (Read the full review...) 964 words, 10/13/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "Against all odds, an unquenchable artist has made yet another piece of powerful art." (Read the full review...) 686 words, 03/02/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "How did Mr. Panahi do this? I'm at a bit of a loss to explain, to tell you the truth, since my job is to review movies, and this, obviously, is something different: a masterpiece in a form that does not yet exist." (Read the full review...) 980 words, 02/29/12 David Denby, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "...often funny and stirring, but as you are watching you know what the game will lead to; dictatorships are not known for their sense of humor." (Read the full review...) 673 words, 02/27/12 Ella Taylor, NPR: EXCELLENT "...an exhilarating evocation of how art is stubbornly made, and arbitrary authority put in its place, under the most confining conditions." (Read the full review...) 834 words, 02/28/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Fascinating for what it signifies as much as what it shows... illustrates how Panahi is struggling to stay alive creatively and, paradoxically, can't help but demonstrate how much of a natural filmmaker he is." (Read the full review...) 645 words, 03/02/12 Dana Stevens, Slate: OUTSTANDING "...a miracle -- not only because it's such a terrific movie but because it exists for us to see at all.... the very existence of this movie is a gift. No wonder it came to us in a cake." (Read the full review...) 891 words, 03/02/12 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...at first appears to be a haphazard visual diary of Panahi's daily life... But by the time 'This Is Not a Film' is over it becomes something quite different, something almost impossible to describe..." (Read the full review...) 1,289 words, 02/29/12
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "Released from prison but ordered not to direct, write screenplays, give interviews or leave the country, Panahi tests his luck with 'This Is Not a Film,' showing himself unbroken by censorship." (Read the full review...) 832 words, 05/20/11 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "What can a talented, award-winning director do after being legally banned from making movies in his country?" (Read the full review...) 654 words, 05/20/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Fascinating for what it signifies as much as what it shows... illustrates how Panahi is struggling to stay alive creatively and, paradoxically, can't help but demonstrate how much of a natural filmmaker he is." (Read the full review...) 645 words, 03/02/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "This intimate, modest, yet startling film was secretly shot on an iPhone and a digital camera... a revelatory portrait.... sly, ironic and occasionally darkly humorous in its observations." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 02/03/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "How did Mr. Panahi do this? I'm at a bit of a loss to explain, to tell you the truth, since my job is to review movies, and this, obviously, is something different: a masterpiece in a form that does not yet exist." (Read the full review...) 980 words, 02/29/12 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "Against all odds, an unquenchable artist has made yet another piece of powerful art." (Read the full review...) 686 words, 03/02/12
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