Review of Holy Spider (2022) by Fionnuala Halligan for Screen Daily — 26 May 2022
Abbasi has made an Iranian noir which, even though it dares to poke around the spiritual capital of Iran with its largest mosque in the world, isn’t an assault on the Iranian government per se, but a crime thriller which shows how far fundamentalist morality can be twisted and how banal the face of evil really is.
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This review of Holy Spider (2022) was written by Fionnuala Halligan and published by Screen Daily on 26 May 2022.
Holy Spider has generally received positive reviews.
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