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The Playlist by Bradley Warren
24 Frames snaps still-life photography out of its stasis, giving its images a brief history and miniature stories, even if it’s just the movement of cows in and out of a shot.
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Movement and progress are the organizing principles throughout Abbas Kiarostami's final, posthumously released film.
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Even by Kiarostami’s standards, this is a daringly, charmingly tedious piece of cinema, one pushing at the boundaries of what you could even call a “movie.”
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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
The sheer purity of the imagery is entrancing and puts it among his finest, most uplifting works.
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The Film Stage by Giovanni Marchini Camia
Although the animation effect is for the most part quite well-rendered and the animals are brought to life with impressive fluidity, there always remains a slightly jarring artificiality that prevents the viewer from fully sinking into the focused and contemplative spectatorship mode he’d intended.
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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
We like cows and crows and snow, but it’s Kiarostami’s phenomenological presence that somehow turns every image or camera posture into a question about living, seeing, empathy, and essence.
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The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
It’s at once inspiring and heartbreaking to see a master with nothing left to prove still pushing the envelope in the final years of his life. He had plenty left to give us.
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It’s an elegantly oblique movie, even for Kiarostami, whose art thrums with quiet ethereal metaphor.
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The New Yorker by Richard Brody
Above all, the movie offers the mournful thrill of new methods that Kiarostami didn’t live to develop further.
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Yes, 24 Frames is rigorously experimental; it demands patience and engagement. But this haunted ghost-film had me completely entranced.