A serious, powerful film that offers not only emotion but also empathy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2021

Every little scene can be understood or anticipated with just 20 seconds of shooting. Everything is there for a reason, everything goes by a single line of didactic tone that ends up being irritating [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 9, 2021

The Insult is a timely film in the world of extreme political polarization and where political correctness is viewed as a bad thing, and that every word that we utter still matters, that there are consequences to what we say.

| Jul 17, 2020

You have a spirited drama... and I have my candidate for Best Foreign Language Oscar.

| Jun 3, 2020

As much as The Insult is an issue-driven experience, what brings it to life is the acting, especially from those playing family members on both sides of these combatants.

| May 28, 2020

The Insult is conventional courtroom drama made unusual by its politics.

| Feb 6, 2020

Despite some minor issues (the score is -to put it charitably- blunt; one of the twists is soap opera-worthy), The Insult remains firmly grounded in reality, even as the squabble spirals out of control.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Unlike 2018's other Foreign Language nominees, "The Insult" has real political power-to help its homeland heal from the past.

| Nov 29, 2019

From their first encounter, hostile mechanic Tony and older, closed-off construction foreman Yasser are an impossible force and an immovable object.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 7, 2019

The Insult holds back too much, starting out as high-minded camp before settling into an attempt to say something meaningful.

| Jun 5, 2019

Ends up insulting the intelligence of its audience rather than allowing us to draw conclusions on our own.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2019

The Insult provides a valuable, fascinating and hard-hitting history lesson on Middle East politics, particularly the plight of Palestinians. It instructs, but offers no easy answers. [Full review in Japanese]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 3, 2019

The Insult is a strong and thoughtful drama, one that has a lot to say on a number of social and political issues, while also providing engrossing entertainment as a courtroom drama.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

As a character study and political piece, it's too scattershot to make an impact, but its quality when in court is undeniable - it's unpolished, but not a failure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2019

Does an insult carry the same weight of a physical assault?

| Jan 19, 2019

While The Insult focuses on Lebanese history and cultural conflict, it is a story that will feel familiar to anyone whose country has a vivid and volatile divide.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2018

The insult shows enough sensitivity and intelligence so the cinephile can finish the movie, like his stubborn protagonists, with a minimum smile of understanding and complicity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2018

The director's skill lies in how well he fleshes out the confrontation, letting us see Tony and Yasser as proud, fallible beings, not political cyphers.

| Oct 27, 2018

Complicated courtroom drama has mature themes, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2018

Doueriri knows how to unpack a moral quandary, sometimes bluntly but always effectively.

| Sep 24, 2018