Kedi ('cat' in Turkish) is much more than a cute film showing these felines' day-to-day lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2018

The delightful Kedi portrays a complex city founded on history and tradition, and surrounded by goodwill, magnificence, and fragility.

| Oct 29, 2017

Part wildlife documentary, part urban love letter. Kedi may only be a slender 79 minutes long, but it's a lyrical and surprising philosophical tribute to the therapeutic power of pets.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2017

The cats are captured with adoring attentiveness, their intelligent eyes narrowing to slits, their darting movements, a patch of sun-warmed fur, the way one kitten clambers a market stall to paw a pile of oranges.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2017

Filmed at whisker-height, this charming documentary enters the daily lives of the many street cats of Istanbul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2017

You needn't be a cat lover to enjoy Kedi, since the film will make you one anyway.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2017

It is by turns intriguing, amusing and a little bit twee.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2017

This is the film the world needs right now.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2017

One of the most impressive elements in a very likeable documentary is the balance Torun strikes between analysis and affection in her approach toward her feline protagonists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2017

A purrfect antidote to blockbuster fatigue.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2017

There's no more to it than that, but an attractive music score, incorporating several Turkish songs, makes for an engaging film that's easy on the eye and the ear - especially for cat and/or Istanbul lovers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 26, 2017

"Kedi" is the cat's meow. Literally.

| Original Score: B | Mar 17, 2017

A work of unconditional love that celebrates a spot on Earth where an odd symbiosis between humanity and a purring segment of nature has flourished for centuries.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2017

Humans can only draw so many lessons from cats.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 2, 2017

Cats wander in and out of frame; humans speculate on whether the local cats are ambitious or arrogant; Turkish music spills onto the soundtrack; and there's more than one growler of a catfight.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 1, 2017

Though pleasant to watch, Torun's feature debut feels more like a meandering montage than a structured narrative, and it could easily be half as long.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 23, 2017

Those who don't especially like cats - or Istanbul, for that matter - might not get a lot out of Turkish director Ceyda Torun's love letter to the feline population of her native city. For everyone else, it should be an almost unadulterated pleasure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2017

This is the kind of movie I love best - one that starts small, then reveals, slowly but surely, that all of life is contained somewhere inside of it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 22, 2017

I loved it and I am more of a dog person, though I admit to having bonded with a few felines in my day. I daresay even elephant or giraffe people will love it, too.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 17, 2017

'Kedi' is steeped in charm and simple wisdom. I should state flat-out that I am not a cat person, but this film won me over all the same

| Feb 17, 2017