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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Sep 2013

The Patience Stone largely functions as a one-woman play, with Farahani’s character soliloquizing over her husband’s body…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Sep 2013

Most impressive, however, is Farahani's lead performance…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Sep 2013

It is a tour de force for the actress, needless to say. Iranian Golshifteh Farahani is wonderful in the role…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 31 Aug 2013

If Rahimi begins his film in a room so bare it resembles a cell, he ends it in the selfsame one like something out of 'Arabian Nights,' his…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 30 Aug 2013

In a searing, provocative, and passionate performance, [Farahadi]performs a virtual monologue with such emotional precision that there is no…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 29 Aug 2013

A genuine political psychodrama that makes its point with a sledgehammer…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

Anchoring the film is an outstanding performance from Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who plays the timid, nameless woman who comes to…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Aug 2013

The film’s title is derived from a magical black stone of Persian lore that reputedly absorbs the burdens of those who speak to it until…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 22 Aug 2013

A unique, intimately scaled and enormously affecting dissection of patriarchal culture, anchored by a wonderful performance from Golshifteh Farahani…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 21 Aug 2013

It's a tragedy streaked with nightmare farce…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 16 Aug 2013

Mesmerizing Farahani. . . makes for a very tense film…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 16 Aug 2013

With so many dramas depicting the varied facets of life in war-torn Middle Eastern countries, none are quite like this intimate depiction of…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 14 Aug 2013

Farahani — seen in “Body of Lies” and “Chicken With Plums” — is equally vibrant in a performance, and a film, that dares us to listen…

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By Eric Monder (171) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

What might have impressed on the stage-an attenuated monologue by the heroine-seems forced in the confined space of the dreary one-room bedroom set…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Aug 2013

It's the flesh-and-blood lead performance by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani as a profoundly conflicted Muslim wife and mother that seals…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 14 Aug 2013

Farahani determinedly underplays her character, and is often very touching…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Aug 2013

There’s only so much anyone can do with a conceit that amounts to a movie-length speech delivered to a coma patient…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 13 Aug 2013

The camera observes, quietly. There is a stillness, not only in the images, but in the air itself…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Aug 2013

Better to think of this as a star vehicle for Farahani, who almost single-handedly carries the film; the range the Iranian actor displays here…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Aug 2013

The more typical approach transforms the material, and not for the better—rather than a revelation about how it feels to live her life, this…

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