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New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Some wonderful films have come out of Iran in the past few years, but A Moment of Innocence, by highly regarded director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is too smug and too self-indulgent to count as one of them.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
A fascinating humanist experiment and investigation in its own right, full of warmth and humor as well as mystery.
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A fascinating fictional documentary.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Finds the impassioned Makhmalbaf in a more contemplative, even whimsical, mood than usual.
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A meditation-brilliant, humorous, and moving-on history and memory.
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Mr. Showbiz by Michael Atkinson
Normal ideas of truth, illusion, and representation are sent into the meat grinder, and the result is consistently disarming and beautiful.
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San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Muddled and endless.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Almost forbiddingly austere.
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San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
Turns into something like a screwball farce, an intimate, self-aware one.