Jafar Panahi Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Jafar Panahi
Festivals & Awards
2026 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Preview: 10 Films We Can’t Wait to See
July 3, 2026
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide June 2026: Hoppers, Crime 101, The Mastermind, More
June 30, 2026
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners: The 98th Academy Awards
March 11, 2026
Festivals & Awards
The 8 Biggest Snubs of the 2026 Oscar Nominations
January 22, 2026
Features
2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions in the Major Categories
January 19, 2026
Chaz's Journal
Happy New Year 2026 from Chaz Ebert and Everyone at RogerEbert.com
January 1, 2026
Features
Panahi & Kiarostami: Two Masters
December 31, 2025
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
December 29, 2025
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
December 11, 2025
Features
Two Thumbs Up! The Individual Top Tens of 2025
December 11, 2025
Festivals & Awards
“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees
December 9, 2025
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2025
December 9, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Palm Springs Film Festival Announces 2026 Lineup
December 2, 2025
Interviews
Nothing Closes the Doors to Creating: Jafar Pahani on “It Was Just an Accident”
October 15, 2025
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
October 13, 2025
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd New York Film Festival Centers Film and Poetry
September 26, 2025
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2025: Awards and Wrap-Up
July 16, 2025
Features
The 20 Best Films of 2025 So Far
June 12, 2025
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #9: Wrap Up
June 9, 2025
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #7: Critics’ Roundtable
June 2, 2025
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #8: Award Winners
May 28, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Our Coverage of Neon’s Remarkable Six-Film Palme d’Or Streak
May 26, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: The President’s Cake, Death Does Not Exist, Peak Everything
May 25, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” Wins Palme d’Or
May 24, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Yes, Woman and Child, The Six Billion Dollar Man
May 23, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: It Was Just an Accident, Alpha
May 22, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Movies without Tariffs: A Preview of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
May 12, 2025
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025 Announces Lineup with New Films by Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Julia Ducournau, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson and More
April 10, 2025
Interviews
In the Name of Friendship: Matthew Rankin on “Universal Language”
February 11, 2025
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
September 27, 2024
Festivals & Awards
The 10 Most Anticipated Films of Cannes 2024
May 10, 2024
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2024 Iranian Film Festival New York
January 24, 2024
TV/Streaming
Criterion Launches Excellent Janus Contemporaries Series
October 26, 2023
Features
MOMA Launches Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution, 1925-1979
October 12, 2023
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2022
December 12, 2022
Features
Carlos Aguilar’s Overlooked Films of 2022
November 14, 2022
Festivals & Awards
58th Chicago International Film Festival Reveals Award Winners
October 21, 2022
Festivals & Awards
Preview of the 58th Chicago International Film Festival
October 11, 2022
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2022: No Bears, R.M.N., All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
October 9, 2022
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2021: Hit the Road, Unclenching the Fists, The Girl and the Spider
October 6, 2021
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2021: Prayers for the Stolen, The Year of the Everlasting Storm
July 15, 2021
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s
November 3, 2019
Festivals & Awards
The 2019 Iranian Film Festival
January 9, 2019
Festivals & Awards
Highlights from the 2018 Los Cabos Film Festival
November 29, 2018
Festivals & Awards
The New York Film Festival 2018 Preview
September 29, 2018
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2018: Burning, Shoplifters, 3 Faces
September 6, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Hirokazu Kore-Eda wins Palme d’Or; Gilliam’s Man Who Killed Don Quixote Film Closes the Fest
May 19, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: The Wild Pear Tree, plus awards predictions
May 18, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: 3 Faces, Happy as Lazzaro
May 13, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Leto, Sorry Angel, Border
May 10, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2018 Preview: The Top Films Competing For the Palme d’Or
May 6, 2018
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2017 Preview
September 29, 2017
MZS
A worthy cause: Godfrey Cheshire’s book on Iranian Cinema
July 26, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: “In the Fade,” “You Were Never Really Here,” “Directions”
May 27, 2017
Features
Godfrey Cheshire on Knowing Abbas Kiarostami Through His Films and Friendship
July 5, 2016
Features
A Slice of Life: Abbas Kiarostami 1940-2016
July 5, 2016
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2016: “The Handmaiden,” “Transfiguration,” “American Honey”
May 14, 2016
Features
“La Dolce Vita” No More: On The Current State of Foreign-Language Film Distribution
March 18, 2016
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 4, 2016
March 4, 2016
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2015: “A Very Ordinary Citizen,” “Stinking Heaven,” “Looking for Grace”
October 15, 2015
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2015: “The Walk”
September 27, 2015
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2015: “Arabian Nights” & “Les Cowboys”
September 27, 2015
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015 Recap: “45 Years,” “Son of Saul,” “Room,” “Spotlight,” and more
September 21, 2015
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: “The Ardennes,” “Desierto,” “Jafar Panahi’s Taxi,” “Victoria,” “Men & Chicken”
September 17, 2015
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: Table of Contents
September 12, 2015
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2015: A Preview, Believe It or Not
September 3, 2015
Features
The Individual Top Tens of 2014
December 17, 2014
Roger Ebert
National Society of Film Critics falls for “Amour”
February 11, 2013
Festivals & Awards
Almodovar’s limp noodle, Panahi’s home movie
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Iranian filmmakers take center stage
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Pirates of the Riviera
December 14, 2012
Scanners
National Society: The last best critics awards for 2010
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Iranian director Jafar Pahani begins prison hunger strike (UPDATED)
December 14, 2012
Scanners
That was the fest that was
December 14, 2012
Scanners
Panahi gets six years; banned from film for 20
December 14, 2012
Far Flungers
The many kinds of blindness
December 14, 2012
Roger Ebert
Introducing the films of Ebertfest 2012
December 14, 2012
Festivals & Awards
Cannes all winners
December 14, 2012
Interviews
Good people facing impossible questions
December 14, 2012
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