50
The New York Times by Dave Kehr
A very minor contribution to the great corpus of Iranian cinema that has emerged in the last 20 years.
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What are critics saying?
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Payami's gentle comedy captures a subtle range of human feelings through a quietly inventive visual style that embodies the best life-affirming tendencies of modern Iranian film.
80
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
A psychic journey deep into the very fabric of Iranian (and by extension, all) life.
63
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
With its endless takes of characters silently waiting, say, or getting out of bed, this is the kind of film that can be seen only after a full night's sleep. But it is also clever, funny and sometimes moving.
90
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
A finely crafted entertainment that works better than most current Hollywood movies.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Charms with its amalgam of absurdity, optimism, humor, and avuncular regard for the million small daily chores, rituals, suspicions, and courtesies of dwellers on even the sparsest spots on earth.
75
Secret of this 'Ballot' lies in its humor, charm and universality.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Ray Conlogue
A beguiling, slow-moving parable.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Payami has a visual style that is sometimes astonishing, sometimes frustrating, sometimes both.
50
Pleasing low-key comedy.