Engaging, provocative art that challenges its audiences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2022

The film is a sprawling drama about life in modern Iran. It is not always easy to interpret and the action might be considered slow, but the rewards are great.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2022

A Hero is not the most essential Asghar Farhadi movie, but its best qualities exemplify what makes him such an important filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2022

Farhadi works in a key of wide-screen realism, the better to let everyone have their say.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 22, 2022

Farhadi delivers another knotty morality tale with his superb new film, A Hero.... a quietly devastating portrait of a man damned.

| Jan 21, 2022

"A Hero" is a simple story of how quickly things can fall apart, especially for those who are already vulnerable or prone to losing.

| Original Score: B | Jan 20, 2022

A bubbling thriller about one man's two-day leave from jail and how one innocence-driven good deed tangles itself in a mess that jeopardizes his chances of getting out of jail permanently.

| Jan 20, 2022

Farhadi wrings two magnificently raw performances from both actors, providing A Hero with its one and only honest truth.

| Jan 18, 2022

The cast is perfect throughout, blending pros and amateurs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2022

Asghar Farhadi's A Hero is a drama that plays like a thriller.

| Jan 10, 2022

What begins as funny and almost farcical, soon shifts into something much sadder and more sobering.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2022

It may be our instinct to understand stories in terms of heroes and villains, but Farhadi, a peerless dramatist, seeks to defy those binaries at every turn.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2022

Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi's insightful film gives us a hustler we question but still root for.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 8, 2022

It's not easy to pick the side of the ostensible protagonist... I rather liked it.

| Jan 7, 2022

Shot with precision, written with elegance and unfolding at a thriller-like pace.

| Jan 7, 2022

A Hero, in which Farhadi returns to his native Iran after a trip to Spain for 2018′s Everybody Knows, is one of the most labyrinthine moral tales you're likely to encounter.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2022

Just when you think you've pinned down someone as good or bad, the tables are turned and the complexities thicken. Just like in real life.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 7, 2022

Farhadi patiently cranks up the moral suspense until we can barely breathe.

| Jan 7, 2022

The movie's title becomes less ambiguous and more reflective of what everyday heroism means.

| Jan 7, 2022

It's funny, droll and uneven, somewhere between Frank Capra, O Henry and a deadpan Jim Carrey comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2022