| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It offers a coming-of-age tale told unflaggingly from the point of view of a pouting, humorless and unsympathetic nine-year-old.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 17, 2008

Strange, bearded house guests shake up a peeved little girl's life, infusing it with political imagination and wonder.

| Dec 27, 2007

The young heroine is rather humorless, but Gavras's intelligence and skillful touch are evident throughout.

| Dec 4, 2007

Gavras maintains a light touch throughout that allows us a rare chance to emphasize with both the radical and conservative elements at the family dinner table.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2007

Blame it on Fidel! is a knowing lesson in film and history that often makes its serious point with a dose of wise humor.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2007

A wry and observant film with plenty of understated humour.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2007

A smashing, funny and politically sophisticated feature debut from Julie (daughter of Costa) Gavras.

| Oct 19, 2007

The comedy always feels enriching rather than demeaning.

| Oct 19, 2007

French director Julie Gavras neatly side-steps the cliches of 70s radicalism with her terrific debut.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Gavras is an experienced maker of documentaries, but this assured, intelligent film marks an auspicious beginning to her career in fictional features.

| Oct 19, 2007

A smart, amusing take on some serious issues that's fortunate in its excellent young leading lady and its ability to laugh at its own political excesses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2007

What makes this film a real gem is Kervel's brilliant performance, personifying this stage of growing up with a perfect balance of bratishness, bright intellect, humour and innocence. She's a revelation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Cleaving to a child's-eye-view of a time of significant social change, documentarist-turned-feature director Julie Gavras elicits excellence from Kervel as the stubborn schoolgirl struggling to deal with the lack of certainties in her new lifestyle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

A deft, original, entertaining and thoughtful look at that moment when we realise the world's just that bit more complicated than we thought.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Oct 19, 2007

Illuminating, witty and touching, Blame it on Fidel is a gem just awaiting discovery.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

A little gem with a wonderful performance from little Nina Kervel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Gavras does not impose a political viewpoint upon her material, but respects the convictions of her various characters.

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2007

The film contains a surprising amount of understated humor.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 28, 2007