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By Joshua D (826) on 24 Jun 2009

The Stoning of Soraya M. will likely agree with your thinking (after all, who isn't against stoning from the outset)…

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By Mane C (3) on 24 Jun 2009

I went to the pre screening and I thought it was amazing…

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By Shirley A (15) on 24 Jun 2009

A remarkable film! Reveals a grave injustice done to an Iranian woman and one witness who was unwilling to keep silent…

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By Mercedes B (52) on 24 Jun 2009

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS FILM!!!! I SAW THE TRAILER AND IT SEEMS TO BE A VERY GOOD MOVIE. I'LL GO TO WATCH IT WITH MY FRIENDS…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Jun 2009

An exploitative propaganda piece that seems to exist for only one queasy reason--to allow Western audiences to witness the sight of a woman…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 24 Jun 2009

What keeps us watching is the path -- from outrage, to fear, to resigned martyrdom -- of Mozhan Marno, who plays the blameless victim, and…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 24 Jun 2009

Anyone who thought The Passion of the Christ, with which this film shares producer Stephen McEveety and star Caviezel, was its own form of…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 24 Jun 2009

The expansive dramatic approach makes sense, even at its most cringe-inducing, as Stoning is a picture created solely to disturb and provoke,…

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By Clayton E (9) on 23 Jun 2009

Great performance by Shohreh Aghdashloo, although there are some unanswered questions about how her character came to be the maverick she is…

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By Patricia M (101) on 23 Jun 2009

Worth watching to see the present day Irqan and the misled workings of the regime…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 23 Jun 2009

Graphically depicts the horrors inflicted on an innocent woman in an Iranian village, the result of a fatal combination of a patriarchal society,…

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By Bendy W (1) on 19 Jun 2009

Simple, and powerful. I really liked this film, and Shohreh Aghdashloo is amazing! She was at the screening, and she is gorgeous…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Jun 2009

there is something condescending and judgmental in the filmmaker's subtext that seems to exonerate Western culture as somehow less complicit…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 12 Jun 2009

The movie suffers from problems that plague other message-social protest films and from helmer's lack of technical experience, but there's…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 03 Jun 2009

A devastating (albeit didactic and conventional) indictment of religious extremism as practiced in one Iranian village…

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By Chels T (7) on 31 May 2009

Not a pleasant subject. The story is simple but powerful enough for auidence to think about justice and the status of women in islamic world…

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By Mark Keizer (225) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 28 May 2009

It is impossible not to be moved by such a heartbreaking story…

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By Fran D (1) on 22 Dec 2008

I'm probably one of the biggest anti-Bush fans, but I hate to say it that this movie does make you think that we might be doing the right thing…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 24 Nov 2008

reduces an admittedly devastating subject matter to a series of eye-rollingly hoary clichés and stereotypes…

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