Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Unbearably life affirming and quasi-spiritual... [Sharif] dispenses bromides like a watery-eyed, Middle-Eastern Forrest Gump.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 2, 2004

Director Francois Depeyron evokes the look and feel of nostalgia extremely well, recalling films like 'Cinema Paradiso' for their wistfulness and charm.

| Original Score: B+ | May 18, 2004

Even when the material is rather thin and obvious -- and it sometimes is -- Sharif and Boulanger's performances make Monsieir Ibrahim agreeable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2004

Hardly challenging.

| Original Score: C+ | May 1, 2004

A slight-but-charming French heart-warmer that gives Omar Sharif his best role since... well, since Lawrence of Arabia.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2004

Sharif still has that twinkle in his eye and a commanding screen presence.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 23, 2004

[Pierre] Boulanger joins Keisha Castle-Hughes of Whale Rider as one of this year's strongest juvenile performers.

| Original Score: 2.75/5 | Apr 15, 2004

Charming but sentimental...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2004

The [movie's] two halves are larded with European coming-of-age cliches... and never meld into a satisfying whole.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Thanks to Sharif's performance, this French-language import is made quite watchable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Since there's no real-world grit to go with the grace, the story comes off as shallow and unaffecting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 8, 2004

Better when it's resisting the need to be about something, the movie starts strong.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2004

That rare film about the sort of emotionally needy people who don't wear their neediness on their sleeves.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2004

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2004

His performance is a vivid reminder that Sharif, 71, is still out there and capable of doing fine work when it is offered to him.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2004

In this first sequence in Monsieur Ibrahim, Moses appears a typical teenaged boy, trying out his masculine prerogative and simultaneously unsure of what he wants.

| Mar 26, 2004

Tender but never sappy, Monsieur Ibrahim brings two people of vastly different age and background together in ways that are touching, and telling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 25, 2004