Clara Khoury is fine as Rana and the film has a generally healthy attitude toward life and its problems.

| Feb 16, 2021

Rana's Wedding is an urgent, consuming film about our conflicted humanity and the coexistence of both pure hope and ugly violence.

| Jan 29, 2020

What's interesting are the shots of daily life in East Jerusalem and how it's seen through the eyes of the Arab heroine.

| Original Score: B | Jul 30, 2011

Rana's Wedding serves as a strong reminder of the difficulties the people of Jerusalem face every day.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 2, 2005

even if we have to view it through a 'security camera.' Something remarkable happens daily in Jerusalem

| Original Score: B | Dec 1, 2005

So clearly a product of our collective kingdom of frustration and rubble, that she can't help but give voice to a universal howl.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 9, 2004

The film bundles messy history into messy lives, and it breathes.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2004

This wedding film is no stale confection.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2004

Gentle, tumultuous coming-of- age-in-a-day story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2004

The movie is passable as a story but fascinating as a document.

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

As Rana, Khoury gives the film a sympathetic center, but also a maddening one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2004

Effectively conveys the fears and frustrations of Palestinians struggling in a country that treats them as the enemy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2003

Quietly furious poem to the travails of life under Israeli occupation.

Full Review | Nov 25, 2003

Director Hany Abu-Assad makes delightful use of time, stretching out the action over the course of one day.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2003

A bittersweet film that tells the story of Palestinian life as eloquently as anything ever done.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Vibrant filmmaking that manages to deliver pertinent news about life under occupation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2003

Both wry and sobering, if such a thing is possible.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2003

Portrays with equal parts lyricism and unsentimental candor the leaps of faith it takes to act without knowing all the answers.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2003

Contrived plot and paper-thin characterizations.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2003

The Palestinian film community is no threat to Iran's but 'Rana's Wedding' is a promising, if artistically amateurish, try.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 23, 2003