The steadfast courage and well-rounded identities painted by Fares makes for an offbeat, engaging and insightful watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2019

Spirited docu follows Middle Eastern female racing team.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2017

The movie's rough-and-tumble look works in its favor, and the occasional doldrums allow for reflection on the obstacles, military and otherwise, the women face daily.

| Feb 9, 2017

Although Speed Sisters is not comprehensive, it's vital.

| Feb 7, 2017

Speed Sisters is as much about sexism in a Palestinian institution that arguably hasn't existed long enough to develop institutionalized sexism as it is about life under the occupation.

| Jan 26, 2017

The film's appeal is universal.

| Dec 28, 2016

Director Amber Fares finds a frankly astounding subject for her first feature-length doc, using the story of a few brave sportswomen to shine a bright headlamp on lives lived under occupation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2016

"...an exuberant, action-packed film about the first all-female auto racing team in the Arab world."

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 25, 2016

There's some nail-biting internecine tension as a climactic race result goes down to the wire, but the overall tone is celebratory and affirmative.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2016

[A] fascinating profile ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Speed Sisters is a muscular, unapologetic and surprisingly feel-good documentary about the Middle East's first all-female team of racing drivers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

The film interview-race-interview-race format is slightly repetitive and there's little in the way of tension even as the championship nears its conclusion, but Fares proves that life carries on even amid the chaos of war.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2016

It's not exactly hard-hitting stuff, and isn't meant to be, but it spins an entertaining yarn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2016

It's a scrappy piece of work, but all the more fascinating for it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Speed Sisters sometimes dallies like it's looking for a reason, or has lost its point in the vibrant camaraderie, but the film judders with an energy lacking from most documentaries.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2016

Proof that life goes on, even under occupation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2016

This half-throttle documentary might better be called The Fast and the Uneventful.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 11, 2016

Solidarity through defiance that proves to be one of Speed Sisters' greatest charms.

| Mar 10, 2016

Five Palestinian women pursue their passion for car racing -- and smash stereotypes at the same time -- in this high-energy documentary directed by Amber Fares.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2016

Speed Sisters may be light but it's never lightweight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2016