Alayan's Jerusalem is a place where individual privacy is non-existent; where conformity is demanded for sheer survival; where any citizen who questions the establishment is immediately punished.

| Jul 3, 2021

Reports is ultimately moving. If there's a lesson to be drawn here, it's that when a government relies upon repression, even apolitical citizens are at risk of being sucked into peril.

| Oct 15, 2020

A very tense, engrossing, and well-acted movie.

| Oct 1, 2019

The film itself is a journey. [Full reviewin Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2019

Alayan does an excellent job demonstrating the complexity of the conflict when the secrets and lies transform into a patriotic betrayal. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2019

Muayad Alayan takes a political context and intertwines it well with this story in which every move can raise suspicion. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 16, 2019

The director imprints character and simplicity... despite the opportunistic touches. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 11, 2019

The movie's complications and coincidences sometimes feel far-fetched. But considering where Sarah and Saleem live, we're willing to go along with the story, and Alayan winds up with a movie that sometimes ties us and his characters in knots.

| Aug 2, 2019

It's hot stuff, and Alayan handles it with the practiced skill of juggler casually flicking torches in the air.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 25, 2019

Melding the hurtful and selfish extramarital affair with the explosive politics of the occupied West Bank makes this a great thriller for our time.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 19, 2019

Serious and grimly realistic take on romance between Israelis and Palestinians...Risks of private human folly...contrasts privilege, class, bitter politics in stark relief.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 18, 2019

By the end, you're breathless and spent, but newly attune to the depth of divisions in a biblical city that is anything but holy.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 14, 2019

It runs out of juice near the end, but it's held afloat by strong characters and a topical urgency.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 13, 2019

[The Reports on Sarah and Saleem] resonantly conveys the tensions that pervade its setting and the mistrust inherent in what appears to be virtually every cross-cultural interaction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2019

Muayad Alayan creates a raw, tense environment in which the lovers seek to break out of their cultural roles, but bodily desires are clearly not the answer to forging peace in this troubled region.

| Jul 12, 2019

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem [is] a mostly compelling, occasionally draining political drama from Palestine.

| Jul 11, 2019

A fascinating and unsettling look at the ramifications of marital infidelity when shone through [a] specific geopolitical prism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2019

The fraught relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is this tale's powerful overlay. But it's the questions it raises about personal accountability that speak to wider truths.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2019

charts how a misguided affair becomes a matter of national security while also exploring privilege, power and gender and cultural disparity.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 7, 2019

"The Reports on Sarah and Saleem" snaps, crackles and pops.

| Jun 14, 2019