| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A major minimalist departure for Kiarostami.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 10, 2003

A very interesting film, despite structural limitations that keep it from approaching greatness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2003

A rare chance for viewers to eavesdrop on everyday talk in Tehran that, although fictionalized, must approximate what really happens in Iran's busy capital.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 9, 2003

Ten may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2003

A conceptual tour de force and a brainiac's road movie, Abbas Kiarostami's Ten goes from chilly abstraction to hot emotion in less than 60 seconds.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2003

It shows us, in an extraordinarily simple way, the hopes and frustrations of one woman's life.

| Apr 18, 2003

Very soon it's clear that even from a camera trained on the front seat of a car, an amazingly full and complex portrait of Iranian life can emerge.

| Apr 18, 2003

Stark, experimental and surprisingly affecting.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 11, 2003

No ordinary moviegoer, whether Iranian or American, can be expected to relate to [Kiarostami's] films. They exist for film festivals, film critics and film classes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2003

Ten has been praised as a further distillation of Kiarostami's already minimalist cinema. That's true enough, even if his movies still have a tendency to make us carsick.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2003

A film made by a master, with a simplicity that is really revolutionary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2003

Kiarostami is nothing if not patient, almost to a fault here. He allows life to happen as the film rolls, and one can't help but wonder if, to cover a lot of emotional ground, you must also cover a lot of asphalt.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2003

Makes maximum use of a minimalist structure to deliver some cogent observations about the status of women in contemporary Iran.

| Mar 13, 2003

Ten might not be the easiest film for Hollywood-conditioned viewers to get into or to enjoy, but it never seems like an arid experiment.

| Mar 8, 2003

A glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 6, 2003

Breezy, entertaining and enlightening.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2003

Conceptually rigorous, splendidly economical, and radically Bazinian.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2003

By the end you feel that the lives of the characters, and the complicated society they inhabit, have been illuminated.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2002

One of the most casually progressive of the recent Iranian films, presenting its predominantly female cast as candid, freethinking and completely sympathetic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2002