Abbas Kiarostami

Year in Film: Three Critics' Top Three

Man Drive Car

Taxicab Confessions this isn't: Ramin Bahrani's quietly profound Goodbye Solo.

Iranian Film Festival

Taxicab Confessions this isn't: Ramin Bahrani's quietly profound Goodbye Solo.

The Kite Runner

Controversy aside, this adaptation just won't fly

Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

Controversy aside, this adaptation just won't fly

Offside

Banned in his home country, as usual, Iranian Jafar Panahi scores with his sports movie as social commentary

From the Mouths of Babes...

Horses focuses on the children whose actions speak volumes about the persecuted Kurds

Come See the Paradise

This gentle Iranian import proves that children speak louder than fundamental ideologies

Allah My Children

Thank Heaven and Iran for a solid kids film

Fatwa This

Ayatollah you once, ayatollah you again: Abbas Headline:Kiarostami's movies just aren't that interesting