Well-observed and unassuming as this film is, it glides along rather too blandly.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 16, 2016

Honest, direct and dramatic without any sense of special pleading or situations pushed too hard.

| Sep 15, 2016

It's sometimes funny, but always empathetic, and Faucon wisely leaves many of the most dramatic moments off-screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2016

A small miracle of a film from the French director Philippe Faucon.

| Aug 25, 2016

Fatima has its heart in the right place, but there's something dehumanizing about Faucon's approach: These characters, it seems, are too important as representational objects to ever become real people.

| Aug 24, 2016

Fatima adds another trim chapter to Faucon's catalog of social dramas with its affecting, highly focused story of a hard-working first-generation Moroccan mother, Fatima, and her two teenage daughters in Lyon.

| Aug 22, 2016

The film appears to have been devised to pander to the presumptions of Western, liberal viewers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 22, 2016

This poignant slice-of-life dramedy proves as modest in length (78 minutes) as it is generous in rueful insight and emotional complexity ...

| Jun 10, 2015

A film that brings clarity and even a sense of exhilaration to the struggle of mother and daughters to succeed on their own terms and for one another.

| May 28, 2015

Fatima offers a gentle, affecting celebration of the fortitude and intelligence of an Algerian cleaning lady struggling to raise her two daughters in contemporary France.

| May 28, 2015