A solidly told and performed story that will bring welcomed uncertainty to its audience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 9, 2022

The performers are impeccably directed by a director who even when not at his best, always delivers much to enjoy and analyze for cinephiles. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2022

Farhadi allows “The Past” to show a social conscience that speaks to greater ills in modern society. At the same time this is a very ground-level story between several damaged yet culpable characters...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

By the end, the experience pulls us through unlikely turns. Yet, Farhadi’s skill as a dramatist makes the proceedings feel grounded in a remarkably realistic portrait.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2022

The film is something of a long-winded melodrama, although it has truthful moments and circumstances and all the performers work diligently.

| Feb 12, 2021

The Past is very much in the present.

| Jan 8, 2020

While The Past may not trump Farhadi's previous work, it's still an excellent piece of melodramatic cinema, with a finely staged script and engrossing performances.

| Aug 12, 2019

A tale of divorce unfolds as an onion-skin riddle of secrets and lies. It's torqued with enough revelations that it would be melodrama if it were not so exquisitely rendered.

| Aug 7, 2019

Nonethless, The Past is still a very good film with an excellent screenplay (don't be surprised if Farhadi picks up another Oscar nomination for this) and direction.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jun 27, 2019

Another engrossing and intimate drama, revealing a keen understanding of filmmaking and character creation, realised by flawless performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2019

A slow-burning, thought-provoking ending to an absorbing film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2019

We cannot really say that any of the characters is unjustified in their conceits. nstead he film's ability to empathise with its characters foibles - on all sides - becomes its profundity.

| May 22, 2019

The Past once again cements Farhadi's position as one of world cinema's finest working filmmakers, capable of flipping his labyrinthine familial fables with the smallest, most inconsequential of actions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2019

The film questions responsibility and shows how sometimes people do the wrong thing. It is begs the question: what exactly is the right thing, and how can we recognise it?

| Jan 30, 2019

We get a sense of the Larkin sentiment that, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad", as the by products of the parental dalliances (the kids), are left as collateral damage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2018

The theatrical feel persists in "The Past," whose shoot was preceded by two months of rehearsal, but it's cruder and more driven by the demands of an overloaded plot.

| Feb 17, 2018

No one wins in this ambiguous, accomplished film, which ends by burdening the audience with a secret that none of the characters will ever know.

| Jan 1, 2018

Farhadi explores the strength of selfishness and secrets and expresses symbolically - and forcefully - how the past clings to us. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 12, 2017

A superb and engrossing relationship drama.

| Oct 25, 2017

Connecting the political dots is a more or less futile task when dealing with a film that seems almost as clueless about private life as it is about the public realm.

| Oct 3, 2017