Inversion: reviews

What the critics say average 6.5 from 4 outlets

• 8.0 Time OutTrevor Johnston Like Asghar Farhadi's acclaimed recent movies, this is a story about middle-class Tehran and the layers of conflict that evolve out of seemingly ordinary circumstances. Read
• 6.0 The GuardianPeter Bradhshaw It is an involving story, but I found it sometimes a little dessicated, and the ending rather shies away from the intractable dilemmas that had been so painful. Read
• 6.0 The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young The smog that envelopes the teeming metropolis of Tehran, graying out tall buildings and infecting people's lungs, becomes an ominous sign of the times in veteran director Behnam Behzadi's penetrating drama Inversion. Read
• 6.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman The audience looks at Niloofar and feels so connected to her eager vitality that we want her to be everything that she can be. But she's living in a society where that desire must take a back seat...to just about everything else. Read