A Hero
A Hero | Reviews
Winner of last year’s Cannes Grand Prix, this tense, spiraling drama about a man on two-day leave from debtor’s prison is a tight, tangled web of dignity and deception from one of Iran’s most celebrated directors.
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The Times
A competent and sometimes convoluted morality play anchored by a sympathetic performance from... Amir Jadidi
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Wall Street Journal
A deliciously ironic, exquisitely complex and mysteriously stirring tale...
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Slant Magazine
The film is a demonstrative examination of the way our raising of heroes onto social media pedestals diminishes the messy, sometimes impenetrable truth of human lives.
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Time Out
A superb morality play that immerses us deeply in a society's values and rituals and keeps us guessing right to its powerful final shot.
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IndieWire
Farhadi might not be a filmmaker you expect to tackle the emotional ramifications of social media, but in his low-key way, he manages to spin Rahim's diffidence into a shrewd portrait of how random faces in the crowd can sow doubt.
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