Zaza Urushadze's slow-percolating drama finds a simple farmer navigating a perilous truce between warring factions in the 1992 border war between Georgia and Estonia.

| Jun 8, 2020

You'd find that in investing 87 minutes of your time for "Tangerines," you had viewed not just a poignant anti-war film, but a beautifully realized cinematic parable.

| Apr 30, 2019

Pitch-perfect performances and Urushadze's careful unwinding of the story ensure Tangerines is never less than riveting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 6, 2019

A thought-provoking, tiny-but-tough Oscar-nominated Georgian anti-war drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2016

It's powered by casually great, lived-in acting, particularly from Lembit Ulfsak as the old man under whose roof the gruff Chechen mercenary and his sensitive young Georgian foe find themselves facing off.

| Oct 31, 2016

The wonderful, sensitive Tangerines is a plea for tolerance -- an appeal which should always be heard. It is a must-see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2016

An oustanding and emotional movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 1, 2016

Ulfsak, by all accounts Estonia's Olivier, is the pivot of the all-male cast, his mournful face bringing an intense gravitas to proceedings in an small, but engrossing and handsome film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2016

It represents the horrors of war in a small town setting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 11, 2016

A conventional war drama that is perfectly made and acted. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 1, 2016

The simple nature and sobriety of this tale, along its bittersweet ending and the transparency of its message, make it, in the end, an homage to anti-militarism cinema.[Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 31, 2016

Those faultless performances make something special of the material. Many will find it disconcerting to be reminded of the many conflicts... that blew up following the fall of the Soviet empire. Worth cherishing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2016

An elegant but unexciting anti-war film, poignantly told in the form of a humanist parable.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 1, 2015

Tangerines explores the absurdities and complexities of the ensuing nationalistic, territorial and religious fall-out with an admirably simple set-up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2015

A melancholy morality tale that beautifully illustrates the folly of conflict and blind hatred.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2015

A quietly profound study of the unfathomable nature of conflict.

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

The funniest and most profound film about war since Dr Strangelove.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2015

It is tremendous storytelling: engaging, intelligent, and with some lovely touches.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2015

This is a film that mines the profoundest truths from the simplest of stories and underlines the sheer absurdity of the situation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2015

The anti-war message is not new but the film delivers it eloquently and with quiet, insistent dignity. And sadly, it's a message that's still not being heeded.

| Sep 11, 2015