Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. 88
  3. Nothing I've read about Iraq or seen on TV in the past few weeks has felt nearly as real and intimate as this commanding fiction.
  4. Reviewed by: Henry Sheehan
  6. It's part grim Beckett-like drama, part joyous picaresque, and all quite mesmerizing.
  7. 75
    Eventually turns somber, with stark depiction of mass graves and suffering refugees. The final scene will break your heart.
  9. 70
    Ends with horrific revelations that are made all the more powerful by the lightness that precedes them. Simultaneously sad and hopeful, Ghobadi suggests the resiliency of a culture in which war is part of the fabric of everyday life.
  10. 90
    If Mr. Ghobadi's dominant theme is the devastation of the Kurds, his subdominant tone is one of strength, resistance and fertility.
  11. Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
  12. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
  13. 90
    This lusty, heartfelt movie has a near Brueghelian visual energy and a humanist passion as contagious as its music.

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