A cry against governmental indifference and a cruel restriction from a chosen means of expression, Taxi is a unique work of art that defies boundaries and convention.

| Aug 1, 2023

“Taxi” always kept my attention, and it had me absorbing every encounter to find how they fit with Panahi’s vision.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Panahi's reactions have been getting stronger and stronger.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 16, 2021

Deeply poignant in its simplicity and undeniably human, Taxi is one of the best non-political, political films I've ever seen.

| Feb 14, 2021

Deeply poignant in its simplicity and undeniably human, Taxi is one of the best non-political, political films I've ever seen.

| Feb 14, 2021

Jafar Panahi shows us how to make a no-movie and how the cinematic experience is working beyond the screen. A masterpiece. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 10, 2020

Taxi Tehran's pleasurable strength is ingenious at all times because Panahi takes the wheel to sneakily tell the story of his life and the country he lives in. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 26, 2020

The car is the only spatial reference Panahi provides, and within that small vehicle, we are offered his silent dissent and resistance as well as his unquenchable need to make movies.

| May 16, 2020

'Jafar Panahi's Taxi' is not a masterpiece, but it is a highly recommended film that works both in its most reflective aspect and if you only want to have a fun time. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 14, 2020

'Taxi Tehran' is a brave, committed and undoubtedly necessary film due to its reflection of Iranian society. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 11, 2020

Panahi is a master craftsman who continues to make bricks without straw, turning his punishment into some of the most essential cinema of the decade.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 7, 2019

One of Panahi's greatest skills as a filmmaker is how he can weave such dense and thematically strong material into a film that can feel light on its feet.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | May 24, 2019

A celebration of form and freedom of expression, this dashcam-shot treasure is an enjoyable if sometimes uneven ride.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2019

Panahi doesn't need permission to make intelligent, thought-provoking and enormously entertaining new works -- in between fares, of course.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2019

At 82 minutes, this is a brisk but hugely powerful work that is cinema of the oppressed par excellence.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2019

Panahi's taxi-cam is a sort of consciousness, unable to stop searching, capturing and presenting the truth.

| Jan 24, 2019

Through conversations and incidents, he gives us a passenger's seat view of contemporary Iran, showing its people to be entrepreneurial, funny, wise, and just crazy enough to survive the strictures on them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Taxi is not an act of sadness but of joy-and not the joy of a good meal or getting a deal on an automobile. This is a humanist's joy.

| Aug 23, 2018

Jafar Panahi proves he's truly an artist bent on showing his creative habilities. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 14, 2017

A fun mix of documentary and fiction that happens entirely on the inside of a taxi. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 14, 2017