Makhmalbaf's skill as a storyteller shines in her ability to condense meaning into an image or snippet of dialogue.

| Feb 25, 2021

A masterwork of symbolic cinema; it depicts, with vast imagination, the ordeals faced by women in modern Iranian society.

| Aug 26, 2019

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

This is just about the lightest and most agreeable of the umpteen Iranian films I've seen.

| May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 7, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2001

..."The Day I Became a Woman" doesn't really capture the imagination at the end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2001

"The Day I Became a Woman" is a trio of fables which simply yet evocatively lay out the problems of being a woman in Iran.

| Original Score: B | May 23, 2001

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2001

A hauntingly simple, profound and beautiful movie.

Full Review | May 11, 2001

These simple episodes are all admirable but rarely engaging.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 2, 2001

...pulsing with energy, fear, and determination

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 24, 2001

What appears on the screen has a starkness that is almost indelible.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 16, 2001

Creates a flow of symbolism so potent, so transporting in its physicality, that its impact all but transcends its righteous liberal 'meaning.'

| Original Score: A- | Apr 13, 2001

A scathing indictment of the harsh, stifling treatment of women in Iran.

| Apr 11, 2001

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 10, 2001