The rest of the film is...kinda all over the place.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 1, 2017

We rarely get the sense that Stewart is talking down to us - which is why it's such a disappointment that 'Rosewater', is so often pitched and played like a carefully dumbed-down 온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Jun 7, 2016

The story is engrossing and enraging, and Stewart takes care to remind us that the real victims of oppressive regimes are those who live with them on a daily basis.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2015

Would you confess to crimes you hadn't committed? I know I would. I'd crack before my tormentors had even cleared their throats, which may be why I found Rosewater so inspiring.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2015

This remarkable film is a tribute to the bravery of foreign correspondents and a love letter to democracy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2015

Straightforward and solid.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2015

After the arrest, the storytelling becomes more grim but Stewart never loses his sense of satire.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2015

Stewart has created a humane black tragicomedy that reminded me of Tom Stoppard's anti-Soviet satire Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2015

Gripping, humane and lighter than it sounds, Stewart's first foray into directing suggests that he was right to quit the day job. We can't wait to see what he does next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2015

Humour of the most absurdist kind does find its way into the film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2015

The main question Rosewater grapples with is whether Stewart can hack it as a filmmaker. The answer: sort of?

| Nov 21, 2014

Rosewater certainly has merit as an act of atonement on Stewart's part and a tribute to people like Bahari... In the end, however, the movie needs to stand on its own, apart from its noble intentions and the popularity of its writer-director.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 21, 2014

The hard-focus clarity of the images (Bobby Bukowski did the cinematography) leads to an intimacy with anguish that passes into expressionism.

| Nov 17, 2014

Stewart does a great job of avoiding clichés in his first time feature as writer-director, but the emotional tie that was needed in order to make a connection with the main character was missing.

| Original Score: 2.3/4 | Nov 14, 2014

Rosewater ... has an urgency that's all about the storytelling smarts of its first-time writer-director.

| Nov 14, 2014

Stewart does a credible job of maintaining the story's immediacy, but I must say I felt relieved that the film wasn't a masterpiece. If it was, we'd have more reason to fear Stewart will leave The Daily Show.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 14, 2014

The gripping, intelligent directorial debut of 온라인카지노추천 personality Jon Stewart, who also wrote the screenplay, based on Bahari's post-prison memoir, "Then They Came For Me."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2014

It's a movie made for people who prefer to take their politics while sitting on the couch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2014

Stewart's enthusiasm for his story and passion about injustice ring clear, but throughout what could have been a dreadfully somber film, he remembers to breathe.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 14, 2014

A strong, striking political drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2014