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Dec 20, 2011
100
The drama it might remind you most of, oddly enough, is "Six Degrees of Separation," also about the snowballing connections between unlikely people. And as in that urban clash, the bedrock of it all is social responsibility, ever crumbling and rebuilding. A total triumph.
Dec 29, 2011
100
Beyond the impeccable performances and direction, it's foremost an exceptional piece of screenwriting, so finely wrought that the drama seems guided by an invisible hand.
Dec 29, 2011
100
Sophisticated and universal yet deeply intimate, A Separation is an exquisitely conceived family drama that has the coiled power of a top-notch thriller.
Dec 29, 2011
100
The members of the cast represent ensemble, naturalistic acting at its finest.
Dec 29, 2011
100
A Separation is totally foreign and achingly familiar. It's a thrilling domestic drama that offers acute insights into human motivations and behavior as well as a compelling look at what goes on behind a particular curtain that almost never gets raised.
Dec 30, 2011
100
A film that captures the drama and suspense of real life as urgently as any picture released this year.
Dec 30, 2011
100
A Separation is not the work of a constrained artist. It's a great movie in which the full range of human interaction seems to play itself out before our eyes.
Dec 30, 2011
100
Something close to a contemporary masterwork, and maybe the best foreign-language film of the year, right at the tail end.
Jan 3, 2012
100
However ripe A Separation might seem for being adapted into a smart American film, Hollywood shouldn't bother. Farhadi's movie is just about perfect as it is.