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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 21 Oct 2010

Ideally, The Taqwacores should be seen with Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam, a new documentary that provides a better sense of the scene's…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 21 Oct 2010

The actual Taqwacore movement is distilled in blatantly simplistic fashion, but Zahra does capture the novel's adolescent excitement, in which…

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By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 21 Oct 2010

There's certainly a good movie to be made about Muslim punk musicians in the US, but this isn't it…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Oct 2010

The first sign The Taqwacores will be rough-going is when a character shows up in a burqa covered in crust-punk patches... and it's not a gag…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Oct 2010

Deepens as it plays out, and rewards viewers who stick with it through the clumsier passages. The film is moving and thought-provoking…

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By Neil Genzlinger (512) for The New York Times (9,847) on 20 Oct 2010

The Taqwacores aims for a provocative, anarchic cool by juxtaposing Islam and punk rock…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 20 Oct 2010

Whether anyone over the age of 16 will find the film's proud amateurism and choir-preaching personally enlightening, much less profound, is…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Oct 2010

Eyad Zahra's The Taqwacores pays lip service to its characters with the same self-importance of a '90s-era episode of The Real World…

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By Adeola S (2) on 07 May 2010

Who would have thought that a movie that mixes punk with religion would be so kick ass…

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By Alaa A (39) on 07 May 2010

Who would have thought that a movie that mixes punk with religion would be so kick ass…

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