A film that engages with the very core of the complicated conflict without offering easy explanations or random solutions.

| Oct 26, 2023

A timely piece about an excruciating moral dilemma.

| May 9, 2020

So distinctive in mood, tone and perspective that it demands to be noticed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

With inspired judgment and skill, the film embeds its debating points in the trajectory of the story, or humanises them with everyday emotions.

| Oct 7, 2018

... it has the great advantage of letting an audience feel it is seeing things it would otherwise never see.

| Sep 26, 2017

If you actually see it, you'll find this look inside the minds of two terrorists both fascinating and frightening.

| Mar 2, 2016

The filmmaker keeps the thorny issues under control

| Sep 1, 2009

Could a more important, relevant and complimentary film to Munich have come out in 2005?

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 28, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 21, 2006

Abu-Assad does a good job of building tension and showing some of the complexities within Palestinian culture. He has, as they say, put a human face on the Palestinians.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 27, 2006

Un film duro, polémico y bien realizado, que promueve el debate sobre un conflicto aún por resolver.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2006

A tragedy regardless of its conclusion, Paradise Now is an important and powerful effort to explicate the inexplicable.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 5, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2006

While it fails to make a compelling argument for terrorism, it is a compelling story nonetheless.

| Original Score: B | Mar 7, 2006

It's all compelling, and the film boasts an ending that leaves the audience sitting in numbed silence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2006

For a while as perversely compelling as Spielberg's Munich, the film sadly deflates as a narrative.

| Feb 2, 2006

Ainda que assuma claramente a defesa da causa palestina, o cineasta deixa clara sua reprovação ao terrorismo.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2006

Paradise Now gets a little frantic and lost near the end, which is infinitely preferable to the bourgeois accessibility of its beginning. I would love for the film to have gone much further, cut deeper.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 16, 2005

... remarkable ...

Full Review | Dec 9, 2005