With “1982,” Mouaness gives viewers an immersive, ineffable sense of what it feels like to have the world shift under your feet before you even know it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2022

Falls a bit short in sticking the landing, but there's lots here to hang a movie on; it's well-acted and a rarity in the current live-action cinema landscape in that it puts children in realistic situations exploring their emotional journeys.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2022

The film makes an imaginative leap at the end that I found a bit trivializing...but it still leaves a potent impression.

| Jul 29, 2022

Perhaps by reminding us of the importance of small moments worth protecting, a movie like 1982 can rekindle the connection to that inner child of decades past.

| Jun 19, 2022

1982 may have proved disastrous for Lebanon, but "1982," cinematically speaking, is an unqualified success.

| Jun 10, 2022

Mouaness directs his debut feature with a sensitive hand, even if his script, based on his own experience, could have used a lighter touch.

| Jun 9, 2022

Mouaness skillfully gives the film a near-real-time feel, conveying a sense that the war is approaching through small-scale details...

| Jun 9, 2022

A triumph! It's an engrossing, poetic and life-affirming emotional journey.

| Jun 8, 2022

[Mouaness] captures well the children's emotional complexity and reaches utmost authenticity even in scenes where others would've bordered on the absurd. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 7, 2022

Imperfect as it is, this often-intuitive piece with a strong observational eye personifies the notion of the calm before the storm.

| Jan 19, 2021

Mouaness' first feature 1982 takes some time to get going, but hits every note perfectly once it finds its balance.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 20, 2020

Mouaness has a better handle on the ins and out of school life and love than he does the bigger picture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2020

Succeeds in accessing emotional truths that leave a lingering bittersweet melancholy.

| Dec 16, 2019

Fortunately the movie is very intelligent and treats us like intelligent people. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Oct 3, 2019

A sensitive slice-of-life drama.

| Sep 19, 2019

Mouaness effectively captures the slow erosion of innocence.

| Original Score: B | Sep 19, 2019

On a minute-to-minute basis it's mundane and cinematically ordinary.

| Sep 17, 2019

With extraordinary performances, we are not only given the opportunity to walk back in time, but to also walk in another's shoes in a world where the future of tomorrow is truly unknown.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 12, 2019

The dramatic layers of what we know is coming color every action with as much danger as melancholy since Mouaness [shows us a] Lebanon [about to be] irrevocably changed.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2019

In 1982 Mouaness is thoughtfully considering the ways that, even in times of macro-sized conflicts and crisis, life goes on, unbent and broken, and petty and silly.

| Sep 10, 2019