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Fresh:12
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.1/10
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.
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 CriticAlthough The Stoning is efficiently made, it is ultimately a cheat.
Top CriticA reasonable person might well add the issue to the agenda after enduring this at times unbearably violent agitprop drama, based on the true story of an Iranian woman stoned to death after being falsely accused by her husband of adultery.
Top CriticGoes well beyond its angry didacticism and its specific indictment of men's oppression of women to achieve the impact of a Greek tragedy through its masterful grasp of suspense and group psychology, and some superb acting.
Top CriticThe film is plodding and simplistic.
Top CriticThe sort of film that gets its strength from subject matter rather than artistic choices, this sincere but unsubtle drama will likely earn additional attention due to its timeliness.
Top CriticA riveting account of oppression, injustice and defiance.
Top CriticThe whole movie marches to that same, sad rhythm of unalterable horror, illuminated by Joel Ransom’s brutal and beautiful cinematography. The sum is difficult to watch.
Top CriticA shocking yet stately and powerful plea for women's rights.
Top CriticThe film comes perilously close to reveling in the horror while revealing it. And dramatically, this is distressingly simple-minded fare: ugliness leads to ugliness.
Top CriticThe more dramatic the material, the more restrained the approach ought to be.
Top CriticThis gory, ham-fisted hybrid of social-issue picture and horror film exerts a crude but undeniable power.
Top CriticThe film, shot elegantly in color but with the dramatic feel of black and white, functions as a parable of power abused by the multitude. It takes a village to turn craven stupidity into fascist bestiality.
Top Critic[A] shattering and powerful drama.
Top CriticIranian American director Cyrus Nowrasteh has amplified the basic elements of Suraya's story into the worst kind of exploitive Hollywood melodrama, presented under the virtuous guise of moral outrage.
Top CriticThe Stoning of Soraya M. thoroughly blurs the line between high-minded outrage and lurid torture-porn.
Top CriticWhat keeps us watching is the path -- from outrage, to fear, to resigned martyrdom -- of Mozhan Marno, who plays the blameless victim, and the speak-truth-to-power courage of Aghdashloo as her tireless advocate, desperately looking for justice.
Top CriticThis is less a movie than a blunt instrument, a bit of political parable, a bit more outrage, and nary a scrap of real drama or finesse.
Top CriticThe Stoning of Soraya M. has such a powerful stoning sequence that I recommend it if only for its brutal ideological message.
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