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Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerA celebration of the human spirit nothing short of sublime.
- 100San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ExaminerG. Allen JohnsonKiarostami's genius is elusive. His films may be unknowable, but they are undeniably hypnotic, charismatic.
- 100VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungTakes the refined work of Iranian helmer Abbas Kiarostami up another notch to ever more metaphoric ground.
- 100Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA 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.
- 90The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensIts 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.
- 90Film.comFilm.comWill test your powers of attention. The effort is worth every minute.
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla Taylor"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.
- 63New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanPoetic but tedious and all but plotless.
- 63San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannFilm is often too subtle and languorous for its own purposes: At times, it's close to soporific.