There Is No Evil: reviews

What the critics say average 5.9 from 7 outlets

• 8.0 CineuropaMarta Balaga "Rasoulof signs a powerful manifesto in his film, divided into four, of death sentence". Read
• 7.5 IndiewireEric Kohn "Iranian director has made an absorbing ride defined by the paradoxes of its people". Read
• 7.0 CriticLuciano Monteagudo "Not without a moralizing character, Rasoulof's film (...) proposes a call for civil disobedience." Read
• 7.0 VarietyPeter Debruge "Rasoulof launches his most openly critical statement yet, a series of Kafkaesque moral parables about Iran?s death penalty and its perpetrators, made in open defiance of the restrictions the government put on him". Read
• 5.0 Screen DailyLee Marshall "If only the whole film had maintained the promise of the first of its four named chapters (...) Nothing in the two hours that follow quite matches this tour de force". Read
• 5.0 The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young "Though the message comes across loud and clear, the four tales suffer from being narratively uneven, making the film?s two-and-a-half-hour running time seem long indeed". Read
• 2.0 El MundoLuis Martínez "Rasoulof disappoints with an irregular reflection of the death sentence (...) a proposal as irregular as it is awkwardly melodramatic in equal parts." Read