The movie’s audacious visual style and star-making performance from Mouna Soualem makes it an immediate must-see.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 7, 2025

If the film loses potency in straining for such empathetic effect, it remains admirably trenchant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2024

The film captivates the viewer from the very beginning, starting with the resemblance between the two sisters, who give the film its name, and the development of the character of Hasna, inspired by a real-life case. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: B | Dec 14, 2023

Amer, who co-wrote the script with the film’s cinematographer, Omar Mullick, makes an extremely impressive directorial debut. The childhood scenes in particular are shot through with a frenetic and compelling energy, accentuated by skilful editing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2023

You Resemble Me eventually becomes a sort of patchy exercise that remains effective due to Mouna Soualem’s exceptional performance and dedication to telling an honest story.

| Mar 6, 2023

... it has an arresting vitality, but doesn’t tell us anything profoundly new.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2023

Harrowing despite its patchiness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Both girls deliver exceptional performances in the powerful opening section, and if the film struggles to make the same impact afterwards, that serves to bring Hasna’s loss into sharp relief.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 2, 2023

A powerful film told with heartfelt passion by an impressive new director.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2023

A strong, muscular, heartfelt film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2023

The specific details may not be completely accurate, but Amer nevertheless unveils hard-hitting truths in her debut feature.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2023

The film could have used more facts and less fiction to bolster its arguments, even if it was still engrossing.

| Original Score: B | Dec 25, 2022

Dina Amer’s gripping portrait of innocence lost is an amazing and unforgettable film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 8, 2022

Beautifully acted and directed.

| Nov 30, 2022

Hasna’s story is one that will stay with you, especially some of its visual snapshots, like the young sisters running around Paris in matching dresses or adult Hasna posing for selfies in full burka.

| Nov 28, 2022

Amer’s angry film is a reminder that it takes real diligence and compassion to understand someone fully, and that difficult work is all the more important when they are so terribly misunderstood.

| Nov 28, 2022

...riveting and unexpectedly devastating...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 27, 2022

An extraordinary directorial debut — based on actual events — in which form and content fuse to discover a new cinematic language.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 17, 2022

Amer’s filmmaking technique incorporates multiple styles, going from documentary-type naturalism, with the camera picking up sometimes chaotic action, to surrealism...

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 14, 2022

You Resemble Me is at its strongest when it tries to humanize its misunderstood central figure in simple, intimate way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 4, 2022