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Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: The Stoning of Soraya M. nearly transcends its deficiencies through the sheer strength of its subject material, but ultimately drowns out its message with an inappropriately heavy-handed approach.
This film is eye-opening and heart-draining and it is excellently produced.This is a very good film, but it is hard for me to chirp "check it out" because it will stick with you, twisting in your stomach and making your life's petty annoyances feel less t
Does not make for good drama or entertainment, but it eerily elicits a strange power that says a lot about human rights violations throughout the world.
Anchored by a terrific performance by Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Stoning of Soraya M explores the disturbing lives of women in the more radical regions of the Middle East.
This movie is well acted, directed, edited and filmed, however, it is also depressing, uninspiring and sickening. Like a glacier, it moves slowly and inexorably towards its final conclusion.
The story is simple and compelling and the title leaves no doubt where the story is going. This is a powerful film for those willing to see its extreme violence.
The film does have a certain crude power. But that's part of the problem with it: It's too crude.
A laughably manipulative melodrama.
It is possible to support the journalistic ideal that no stoning should be left unturned while also championing better storytelling.
Whatever its dramatic flaws, and they are many, this is a movie that, in essence, is more than a movie.
Many films have shown more explicit (and often gratuitous) violence, but the impact is greater in this film as it is intensely personal ...
Often feels more like propaganda than drama.
At its best, The Stoning of Soraya M is a snapshot of how evil can spread among the utterly normal, the well-intentioned and the (at least to them) righteous.
It gets its point across with all the subtlety, sorry to say, of a rock upside the head.
Despite some wonderful performances, the plot plods inexorably and with sickening predictability towards the inevitable conclusion, but nothing can prepare us for the actual event, which Nowrasteh films in real time and in shocking detail.
Top CriticThough The Stoning of Soraya M.' s heart is in the right place, its head is lost in storm clouds of anger.
Top CriticThe magnificent performance by Aghdashloo is worth the price of admission.
It's disappointing that such a serious issue and a passionate cry of outrage is cloaked in such a manipulative melodrama.
The spoiler is in the title of The Stoning of Soraya M., a powerful, relentlessly brutal drama about Iranian capital punishment.
Although The Stoning is efficiently made, it is ultimately a cheat.
Top CriticThis broadside against sharia law lacks the finesse of an import, but it's effectively melodramatic, particularly because of the strong performance of Iranian-born actress Shoreh Aghdashloo
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