You Resemble Me Reviews
Harrowing despite its patchiness.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2023
A strong, muscular, heartfelt film.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2023
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
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
A blunt, mostly effective portrait of someone pushed and pulled into a state of permanent imbalance.
| Nov 3, 2022
You Resemble Me suggests that Aït Boulahcen is at once both indivisibly human and impossibly complex, but its hopscotch approach to her biography grows too prescriptive for the film’s mysteries to survive.
| Original Score: C+ | Nov 3, 2022
For all its empathetic detail, “You Resemble Me” contrives a rather simplistic cause-and-effect tale, grasping too desperately at elusive answers.
| Nov 3, 2022
It’s not often that Human Rights Watch sends a narrative feature our way, but when they do it’s a moment worth cherishing.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 6, 2022
This inspired-by-true-life story of crumbling identity and radicalisation is a powerful cry from the heart.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2021
A gripping and painful story of dislocation and belonging.
| Sep 22, 2021