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This Is Not a Film Reviews
This Is Not a Film is not a film; it is something bigger — a searing critique of the Iranian regime through a camera lens stuck in the house of a prisoner.
| Jun 10, 2024
A small masterpiece... [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 7, 2022
This is Not a Film shows that despite the precarious situation- facing censorship and imprisonment, nothing can contain an artist from creating. The result is an intimate and self-reflexive film that transcends it being a mere political statement.
| Feb 28, 2021
... His anger is quiet and frustration restrained.
| May 16, 2020
The result is a great modernist (i.e. reflexive) movie and a portrait of an artist, creatively and without any self-pity, looking for a way to preserve his freedom simply to represent the world as he sees it.
| Aug 27, 2019
If we go by the title and don't define this as a film then it's one of the most original and important things to come out this year.
| Original Score: 8.4/10 | Jul 3, 2019
In a medium where we tend to lionize filmmakers for daring to make movies we enjoy, "This is Not a Film" is a true act of courage since it will not be enjoyed by all.
| Dec 21, 2018
Out of his terrible predicament and the confines of his apartment, Panahi has produced a remarkable film.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 27, 2018
Melancholy as it is, This Is Not A Film is no pity party. It evokes ennui and anxiety without ever being boring itself.
| Feb 22, 2018
Panahi, with a humble admission behind which is a baffled desperation, proves that everyone involved on a film set is making a film, that all are complicit and are creative, all directors in their own right.
| Nov 16, 2017
To forever be remembered as the notorious "USB stick film," Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film is first and foremost a revolutionary act against a repressive regime.
| Oct 4, 2017
"This Is Not A Film" portrays the fear of being forgotten when you can't speak for yourself, when you've been removed from the public eye.
| Original Score: A | May 5, 2015
If this is not a film, by all means let us have many more such not-a-films.
| May 5, 2015
This film is unique in a dreadful way: what happens on screen would not be particularly interesting without the facts surrounding its making.
| Jun 18, 2013
Powerfully shows how freedom in the arts is a necessity for any country to ensure its citizens don't live a lie.
| Original Score: B | Jun 9, 2013
There's a tremendous power under the simple-looking surface.
| Mar 23, 2013
No matter the constrictions on its existence, This is Not a Film is, in fact, a great one.
| Original Score: A | Jan 7, 2013
One mourns the tragic circumstances that caused it to be made, but the result is a sleight of hand to rank alongside Orson Welles's F for Fake.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 7, 2013
Not a conventional film, certainly, but a powerful and important statement.
| Jan 7, 2013