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By Larry Ratliff (323) for San Antonio Express-News (323) on 08 Feb 2008

If you go to see Persepolis, you're going to do something you might not have expected to do in your life…

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By Curt Holman (5) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 07 Feb 2008

[Marjane] Satrapi and [Vincent] Paronnaud wed the graphic novel to animation in Persepolis, and it's the kind of blessed marriage through which…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 07 Feb 2008

Persepolis is passionate, comically poignant and universally familiar in ways that expose the penguins and rodents that are its fellow Oscar…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 01 Feb 2008

Persepolis is a true original in the eclectic world of animation, one that's full of fascinating contradictions…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Feb 2008

Though you might have a hard time discussing some of the film’s verbal descriptions of torture with young ones, Persepolis will prove a worthwhile…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 31 Jan 2008

The film works on multiple levels: as a history lesson, as a primer on Middle Eastern politics and as an artist biography…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 31 Jan 2008

It's a cultural Rosetta Stone, bridging disparate cultures with a universal language %u2014 the pain of growing up…

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 29 Jan 2008

The characters are so rich and so human that they transcend the simple animation.The vocal performances also help give the film universal appeal…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 26 Jan 2008

Clicks on ever level, visual and narrative, with a sort of inventiveness that seems intoxicated by the liberating possibilities of cinema…

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By Tom Keogh (466) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 25 Jan 2008

If anything, the tonal simplicity of the film lends itself to graphic wit, a rich array of emotional experience and an austere impression of…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 25 Jan 2008

A film as personal and eccentric as Satrapi's original book, a black-and-white, hand-drawn memoir of growing up and away from Iran…

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By John Monaghan (292) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 25 Jan 2008

More than just the first film in recent memory to be considered a must-see, Persepolis begs for a second viewing, if only to chart the way…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 25 Jan 2008

Few movies capture so well the fluid, fulsome response of children to their (and our) complex worlds…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 25 Jan 2008

Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel series has been turned into one of the most complexly moving animated films…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 24 Jan 2008

Beautiful and heartbreaking, Persepolis is a sublime achievement worthy of applause…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 24 Jan 2008

Fascinating memoir of coming of age in Iran…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 24 Jan 2008

The movie, while no fun, faces hard truths and asks hard questions…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 18 Jan 2008

No attempt has been made to go beyond two dimensions with the images, but the story and characters spring to three-dimensional life…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 18 Jan 2008

No attempt has been made to go beyond two dimensions with the images, but the story and characters spring to three-dimensional life…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 18 Jan 2008

Persepolis, the superb film based on Satrapi's graphic memoirs of the same name, is a riveting odyssey in pictures and words…

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