There’s an incredibly fascinating story at the heart of Coup 53 that anybody who has an interest in world history and the effects of dirty politics will take an instant liking toward.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2022

A necessary film research about the nowadays status of iran. [full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2021

It's an exhaustive, riveting exegesis...

| Jan 9, 2021

Complex but rewarding, this is a deep dive into American and British espionage that reveals how the two superpowers collaborated to take down and reform the government of Iran in 1953, an operation pulled off under the nose of the international community.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

The weight of the reality of the situation at the time, and its overarching influence over the destiny of Iran, truly comes to bear in the latter half of the film, making the experience educational, enlightening and enthralling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2020

An exhilarating... historical documentary that unfolds with the pace and complexity of a thriller.

| Sep 10, 2020

"Coup 53" is a live-wire thriller that is one of the best documentaries of the year.

| Original Score: A | Sep 10, 2020

Coup 53 is stranger than fiction and a terrifying reminder that the past never goes away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2020

Coup 53 is a gripping documentary...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2020

[An] engrossing documentary...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2020

[Amirani] transforms sifting through dusty plastic bags and filing cabinets into a thrilling detective case...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 3, 2020

With admirable tenacity and care, Amirani has dragged official secrets back into the light.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2020

Part political drama, part history lesson, part gripping spy thriller, Coup 53 gives what has been relegated to a small footnote in Iran's story the big, expansive, dramatic treatment it deserves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2020

Half of the film is really compelling, and the other half I just found frustrating.

| Sep 1, 2020

A documentary with the crackle of a spy thriller.

| Sep 1, 2020

The sum of $60,000 might have bought us and Great Britain a country and its oil, but we wound up paying for it with decades of misery, embarrassment and death.

| Original Score: B | Aug 28, 2020

An eye-popping bit of history...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2020

Since the legacy of what went down in 1953 is still very much with us ... it behooves us all to learn more about today by discovering yesterday.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2020

With legendary film editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient) on hand as editor and co-writer, Coup 53 always tells a complex story clearly.

| Aug 24, 2020

A maddening, gripping portrait of how imperialism works.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2020