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

| Jan 30, 2020

Were it not for the transcendent presence of Binoche (and her transfixing cleavage), I suspect Certified Copy might feel even more like homework.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2011

The conclusion is abrupt and unsatisfying, but the philosophical dialogue Kiarostami manages to keep aloft for well over an hour touches on intriguing questions of openness, self-honesty, and personal freedom.

| Apr 15, 2011

The movie threatens to become a sketch about a coquette and a boor squabbling at each other to little effect.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 7, 2011

"Certified Copy" promises more than it delivers, but the limited portions are fresh.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2011

There's a divinely comical lightness to Binoche here: Even in states of conniption and complaint, she's floating, albeit manically.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2011

Certified Copy is a slighter but more ingratiating film and a chance to see a master filmmaker in uncharacteristic playful mode.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2011

Certified Copy is a genuine triumph.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 24, 2011

The Iranian-writer director Abbas Kiarostami has always been enthralled by the shifting planes of fantasy and reality. His latest film, Certified Copy, is his fullest expression of that entrancement.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 18, 2011

A film as audacious and radical as any likely to see theaters this year.

| Mar 18, 2011

It is a calm sort of dream, a serious work about love and truth and fraudulence and authenticity done with a mysteriously light touch.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2011

Kiarostami is playing with us. That he does it so well is a consolation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2011

Kiarostami never completely spells things out, assuming audiences can think for themselves and appreciate all the film's subtleties and reverberations. Let's hope he's right.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2011

A brilliant, endlessly fascinating work.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2011

A film in the form of a question, but my, how lovely the inquiry is.

| Original Score: A | Mar 11, 2011

Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, and Tuscany: The movie Certified Copy had me at hello.

| Mar 11, 2011

It is literate and engrossing, with excellent performances by Binoche, who won the best-actress prize last year at Cannes, and Shimell, in his screen debut.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2011

Despite its modernist sensibility, there is little reason to be intimidated, unless you find the character of James abhorrent.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2011

Like its central couple, the film is a volatile mix of the studied and deeply felt.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2011

Ultimately, the film's slow-building, eventually overwhelming emotional pull gives Certified Copy its shape and pace.

| Original Score: A | Mar 10, 2011