Ultimately a powerful portrait of the sort of apocalyptic culture clash that is resulting in an increasingly dangerous and fragmented world.
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Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Allouache's script is so packed with incident that the characters have little time for debate, but the tension between fundamentalist and modern morality is woven into the action.
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Achieves what Hollywood never quite gets right: a tense and timely thriller that also serves as a political and a moral allegory.
First hour is an often gripping look at the realities of modern Islam ("You can do anything you want, as long as it's not in public," says a soldier's wife), before silliness takes over.