iven the option, Panahi might prefer to move onto fresh material -- but as man and artist, he seems to be surviving as well as could be hoped.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 22, 2015

Panahi's status as a martyr for his art could have gulled him into loftiness and pride; and yet, by some miracle, Taxi stays as modest as his smile, the point being not to recruit us to his cause but to put us on the side of his compatriots.

| Dec 8, 2015

Taxi is easily the director's most accessible work to date.

| Nov 13, 2015

Jafar Panahi's Taxi looks onto a world where the social order and the spiritual order are at odds, in flux, where the conversations are sometimes cutting, sometimes comic, sometimes troubled, sometimes profound.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2015

Panahi has made a work of invention and brio that remains visually lively throughout, despite its formal restrictions.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 1, 2015

Panahi follows up the excellent This is not a Film and the slightly dry Closed Curtain with his cheekiest and most playful subversion yet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2015

As unassuming as it is inspirational.

| Oct 30, 2015

[The film] seems light-hearted and even whimsical at times but its director is making very serious points about the repressive nature of Iranian society.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2015

A sly, subversive stand in favour of empathy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2015

Panahi looks for new perspectives everywhere he goes, and this search reflects his unwavering devotion to cinema, which has the power to transmit those perspectives to the world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2015

[A] charming, witty, politically lacerating drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2015

Those who've followed Panahi's career over the decades will catch echoes of and references to his earlier movies, and at times "Taxi" is as much a tour of his filmography as it is of Tehran.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 29, 2015

Panahi's guerrilla exercise teases out the social value film can have while studding itself with in-jokes about the gentler forms of realism that export more easily and keep his global audience happy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2015

This is a movie that you will admire both for its courage and creativity.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 29, 2015

An antic countercultural pageant, in which fact and fiction play musical passenger seats.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2015

Taxi may feel slight and loose, but it exudes joy and wit, its vivacity making the film a much more eloquent act of protest than the solemn, introverted Closed Curtain.

| Oct 15, 2015

He looks like he's having a wonderful time, but a sordid reality is never far off: Panahi's films are acts of defiance, and each one could be his last.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2015

It's an act of defiance that's also a sublime piece of cinema, and it ranks among the director's finest work.

| Oct 8, 2015

This spry, sharp and relentlessly clever middle finger to censorship is Panahi's boldest act of defiance to date.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 7, 2015

[Panahi has] created his most accessible nonfilm yet.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 5, 2015