"24 Frames" is slow cinema at its slowest, and as meaningful as you want to make it. Above all, it breathes with the sensibility of an artist who saw beauty in people and places where most of us never thought to look.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2018

This mixing of the real and the unreal is summed up in that final image: a photograph of a film, or rather a film of a photograph of a film, suspended between stillness and motion, between watching and dreaming.

| Mar 2, 2018

24 Frames is a classically Kiarostami work, indicative of his life's curiosities and trademark inquiries, but far short of a culminating utterance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2018

The chief pleasure of 24 Frames is how it attunes you to appreciate any movement, whether it's snow falling, waves crashing, or birds pecking the earth.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 8, 2018

24 Frames immediately communicates the power of the theater experience, in the way that so many of Kiarostami's movies can.

| Feb 2, 2018

In the seconds and minutes around the taking of a photograph, Kiarostami reminds us, the world changes, but mostly in increments.

| Feb 1, 2018

"24 Frames" can't help but be affecting because it is Kiarostami's final movie. But it's intellectually uninvolving, and its technical limitations prove frustrating.

| Feb 1, 2018

How fitting that this lovely final film is one that could be enjoyed by fourth-graders as easily as the most knowledgeable of Kiarostami's admirers.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 1, 2018

We know that, once we arrive at "Frame 24," an end will come: the cessation of a movie, the close of a career. How do you sum up a life? Especially when it's your own.

| Feb 1, 2018

Movement and progress are the organizing principles throughout Abbas Kiarostami's final, posthumously released film, 24 Frames.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2018

Kiarostami remained a tireless innovator right up to the end, and it's fitting that he leaves us with a work so singular as to be almost unclassifiable.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 30, 2018

24 Frames won't create any new Kiarostamians, but it will be a salve for those of us who wanted to sit beside him one more time, following his gaze.

| Jan 30, 2018

Above all, the movie offers the mournful thrill of new methods that Kiarostami didn't live to develop further.

| Jan 29, 2018

24 Frames is a highly meditative work, and at some points maddeningly slow. The audio is beautiful, but in all but a few scenes the soundscapes are nonverbal. There are no words, no characters.

| Jan 25, 2018

Packed with small mysteries and strange ambiguities, these minimalist miniatures bear a closer relationship to Kiarostami's photos and haiku-like poems than to most of his features.

| Jun 7, 2017

In an age where people are so preoccupied with the size of the screen on which we watch things, it's fitting that Kiarostami's final work reminds us that no screen is too small, and that no screen is ever big enough.

| Jun 1, 2017

A truly poignant farewell from a master.

| May 26, 2017

It is occasionally a little repetitive, but this is a mellow, mediative swansong, and Kiarostami's ongoing public dialogue with cinema will be sorely missed.

| May 26, 2017

Takes up residence in your mental jukebox in a way that's so haunting, for a while it crowds out all the other beauty you've heard.

| May 23, 2017

Kiarostami has gone but the work lives on. His unconscious, I think, has infected us all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2017