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 | Mar 28, 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

Contrary to expectation, it's neither a movie about religion nor the coming together of enemies. What it is, at heart, is a movie about love.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2004

Sharif proves that at age 72 he can still command the screen.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2004

Pierre Boulanger, who plays Moses, has an intelligent, awkward boyish charm, but most of the interest comes from Omar Sharif.

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

An appealing breeze of the French New Wave blows through the film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2004

This cinematic plea for tolerance makes for more than tolerable viewing, thanks to Omar Sharif's title turn as the shop owner with a yen for aphorisms.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2004

A delicate, tender tale about how a good father can show up at unlikely times, bridging uneasy cultures -- and in doing so help a fragile bud of a boy bloom.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2004

We've seen it dozens of times: Cute kid disarms perpetually grumpy old man. But the touching French drama Monsieur Ibrahim turns one of Hollywood's oft-worked formats inside-out: It's the old man who is cute and the kid who is the sourpuss.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2004

A joyful ode to life.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 11, 2004

[Sharif] imbues this seemingly simple man with the wisdom that age brings the lucky ones -- his Ibrahim is a subdued Zorba the Greek.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2004

How often do you come across a soothing, unassuming film as gentle as this?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 5, 2004

Its best scenes come as the characters are established and get to know one another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2004

Takes a provocative subject -- friendship and love between a Jew and a Muslim -- and makes it seem natural and wondrous.

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

An intimate little gem.

| Feb 26, 2004

An easygoing coming-of-age movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2004

Good intentions meet maladroit writing in Francois Dupreyon's tacky coming-of-age drama, which skillfully imagines the bustle of 1960s Paris but neglects to insert any plausible characters therein.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 18, 2004

Sharif sparkles as a Turkish grocery store owner and self-styled philosopher who brings sunshine into the life of a lonely boy.

| Dec 23, 2003

Coming-of-age movies are usually pretty dismal, so it's refreshing to discover Monsieur Ibrahim, one that's worth recommending.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 5, 2003