| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

The lovely twilit moments in this movie stay with one, and that summoning them up in your mind is like slowing down time.

| Original Score: B | Jan 3, 2011

Clarkson lights up Ruba Nadda's stately drama Cairo Time like the moon on a summer night, making every moment luminous with quiet, resigned longing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2010

What it has going for it, however, is a strong performance from Clarkson, who has become one of the more reliable character actors in independent film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2010

Confirms two things that hardly need confirming: The Egyptian capital is a breathtaking metropolis, and Patricia Clarkson is one of the best actors in the world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2010

Cairo Time proves hard to resist, the film's familiarity gradually giving way to a playfulness that feels new to the impossible-love subset of bourgeois melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2010

Cairo Time: Take the time to see it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2010

A subtle, quiet, slow film that succeeds in not only burrowing under your skin and into your mind during its running time but has a remarkable ability to stay there for days and weeks afterward.

| Aug 20, 2010

This is a poetic, romantic, emotionally complex film that sneaks up on you, particularly in its final scenes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2010

Nadda is a fine writer of dialogue, sensitive with her actors -- both of whom give superb performances -- and confident in her decision to slow things down.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2010

Clarkson proves what her fans have known forever: She's ready for the spotlight. With luck she'll stay there for a while.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2010

The movie isn't sure what, politically or even romantically, it's about.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2010

Nadda has managed to create space for two performances that feel wistful, serious and self-aware.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2010

If Cairo Time does not amount to much, it does evoke a wistful state of feeling and a complicated city with enough skill and sensitivity that you wish it had dared more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2010

Cairo Time earns some indulgence for a pace that Westerners may find languid.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 6, 2010

[Clarkson] makes yearning palpable. She turns mysterious silences into a language of love.

| Aug 6, 2010

I was almost awed by the way it felt, looked and moved, the whole thing anchored by a pair of exquisite performances be Clarkson and Siddig that both rank as two of the finest I've seen this year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2010

It's a postcard-lovely movie that, in spite of its best intentions, ends up feeling a little touristy.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 5, 2010

The scenery is enchanting and it's clear Nadda was inspired to make the film from the beauty of Cairo. She and cinematographer Luc Montpellier succeed in fashioning a graceful postcard to the city, but a story, too, would have been nice.

| Aug 5, 2010

It's a haunting and hypnotic film. And Clarkson's sublimely nuanced performance is in every way transporting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2010