While the final act frays a little, the sparking tensions of female friendship are vivid and persuasive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2020

Can't wait to see more from Meddour, this is seriously powerful filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2020

Like its magnetic lead, the film is alternately warm and viscerally angry, with scant patience for nuance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2020

There is a scattershot emotional rhetoric here - but also idealism, and emotional force.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2020

This film has such an energy to it... I had a ton of fun watching this and think people will really like it.

| May 29, 2020

[Leaves] no room for doubt that Meddour is a cinematic talent to watch with urgent things to say on the toughened and resilient female spirit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2020

[A] partly autobiographical feature whose extreme tonal flips - from gaiety to trauma, tenderness to tragedy - only make it all the more touching.

| May 28, 2020

That Papicha is imperfect doesn't negate Meddour's talent or the potential audience for the film.

| Aug 27, 2019

"Papicha" feels conspicuously manipulative.

| May 18, 2019

A lovingly acted film that, unfortunately, derails in the third act...

| May 17, 2019