A Hero

Farhadi's best since A Separation, and on the same level. There may be better filmmakers right now, but there's no better dramatist than him.

Scott Tobias

Absolutely wrecked me. This is the closest thing I’ve seen to The Bicycle Thieves, and I imagine my experience was similar to the experience of watching that for the first time in the 40s. While it presents a different situation, it also presents a scenario that makes you…

Ethan Colburn

was not expecting uncut gems level of stress from this goodness meee i am devastated

˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗

It's always heartbreaking to watch someone who makes a minor blunder that undoes everything they’ve done right up to that point. A seemingly basic premise quickly devolves into something far more complex. A Hero expertly examines society's construction of a model, carved…

Hungkat

A Hero is not on the same level as A Separation, or even The Past, but it's still a rather important entry in Asghar Farhadi's glorious filmography. Arguably Farhadi's most outwardly political output to date, A Hero repeats Farhadi's winning formula of everyday moral…

nick

Dishonesty is a malady that burns like a forest fire and manufactured empathy is the fuel that further scorch the searing flame. At the risk of sounding awfully similar to an Ehrlich one-liner - Asghar Farhadi's UNCUT GEMS.

BananaPudding

Given that this is a further refinement of Asghar Farhadi’s career-long obsession with the architecture of moral debt, A Hero feels like a perfect proving ground for his sensibilities in exploring how a singular act of perceived "goodness" can be dismantled by the…

Sam Jalali

The master storyteller in Asghar Farhadi returns with yet another powerful and immersive human drama, that’s deceptively simple yet complexly layered. He takes up relatable everyday characters, throws them in significant situations and explores the complicated moral psyche…

Michael James

A Hero has got into some debt, And can't really travel homeward just yet. Finding some coin, He hopes to rejoin, But some others won't let him forget.

JBird