"Fremont is a darkly comedic and reliably heartfelt meditation on immigrant culture in all its overwhelming ubiquity."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2025

It’s rare to see a movie that is so clear-eyed in its politics and psychology also be so open, lovely and graceful.

| Nov 19, 2024

Delicately paced and gorgeously shot in black and white, this melancholy film benefits from a deadpan humour, which adds an idiosyncratic flavour to its sensitive study in displacement and yearning.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2024

Fremont ultimately asserts that life is messy, random, and bound to hurt, but it also reminds us that we gain nothing from standing by and letting it pass.

| Jul 12, 2024

Although everyone is a philosopher in this film, wisdom remains in short supply.

| May 24, 2024

Shot in a crisp monochrome, our protagonist occasionally seemingly staring straight back at us, Iranian-born film-maker Babak Jalali’s deliberately understated drama is a touching tale of loneliness and isolation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2024

A pleasantly quirky, straight-faced arthouse comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2024

Deceptively deadpan and shot in often striking black and white, it's a story both intimate and wide-ranging

| May 1, 2024

Fremont starts with a sense of sadness, ­repressed memories and dislocation but grows into something hopeful. It's about how we can make connections in unexpected ways.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 29, 2024

… missing a real emotional breakthrough moment to make the build-up worthwhile.

| Original Score: 12/20 | Apr 27, 2024

In many ways Fremont is advocating the importance of accepting that a life can be both average and fulfilling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2024

A distinctly deadpan, yet humanist comedy, about the search for connections, meaning, and love in our disconnected modern world.

| Feb 13, 2024

Fremont concludes with warmth and optimism, infusing independent cinema with a breath of fresh air and a generous heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2023

A low-key study of a refugee's survivor's guilt that balances tender poignancy with deadpan humor.

| Oct 21, 2023

Fremont is a film that treads the line of 'slight, not superficial’. It has plenty to say without veering into didacticism, and it’s shot with a great eye for black and white photography, featuring some strikingly memorable compositions.

| Oct 20, 2023

The film’s playful melancholy is delicious enough to keep the audience on board with Donya’s emotional travel.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Oct 20, 2023

It feels like a great indie from the '90s.

| Oct 3, 2023

This is an excellent little film... [Fremont] speaks to shades of old Jim Jarmusch.

| Oct 3, 2023

A provocative but slight immigrant drama that's made with soul.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 29, 2023

Sometimes you just love a movie, even if it's hard to say what is special about it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2023