Certified Copy offers no answers, no objective truths or epiphanic twists. Even Kiarostami himself has said he has no definitive interpretation. We must deal with it. Like in real life. Or a copy of it, at least.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

A film full of questions and very little answers. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 6, 2022

I realized while watching it, that Kiarostami was at it with his magic again, completely blowing away my expections of what the movie was going to be with his elegance in simplicity.

| Mar 21, 2021

Binoche is simply extraordinary here.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

The philosophical dialogues and performances of Shimell and Binoche, stimulate our senses with an emotional resonance that is at times enigmatic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020

The truth hides somewhere in [the] collision of being and non-being, always just out of reach.

| Jan 30, 2020

...this mobius strip of a movie feels lop-sided. We feel Binoche is doing all the heavy-lifting and Shimmel is just along for the ride.

| Aug 19, 2019

For the loved, for the lost, for the wounded, Certified Copy is a cathartic and rapturous journey of the heart that won't soon be forgotten.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

[William Shimell's] an engaging presence, cool and confident in front of the camera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

It's all pure Kiarostami, but Certified Copy is also supremely European, serving as an antidote to the clichéd Hollywood romance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2018

It's a masterful essay on the value of art, but the slow burner does take a little too long to come to the boil.

| May 14, 2018

Binoche is as always spectacular... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2018

Kiarostami adopts a lush visual scheme and almost lighthearted tone that provides levity to a remarkably demanding work, one that's as playfully deceptive and cunning as anything the director has made before.

| Oct 4, 2017

In many respects, Certified Copy is every bit as elliptical and provocative as more transparently "experimental" films.

| Oct 3, 2017

Imagine a cinematic equivalent of a Picasso cubist portrait, but instead of showing multiple perspectives of an object in an image, it presents experiences from different periods in a life in a single narrative.

| Feb 15, 2017

While the people those characters encounter readily buy into their story as moviegoers ordinarily would, Mr. Kiarostami invites his viewers to second-guess his film and their own perceptions.

| Oct 7, 2015

Certified Copy reminded me why I love movies.

| May 12, 2015

Abbas Kiarostami's Tuscan sun-dappled enigma is the cinematic gift that is going to keep on giving for decades.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 21, 2012

Binoche and Shimell keep us fully engaged with their characters throughout their conversations, and Kiarostami draws us in with his signature mixture of long takes and intimate close-ups

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2012

...impossibly romantic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2012