A little more reach would have allowed Ten to turn it up to 11.
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06/05/03
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Ten (2003)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:44
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Ten turns a conversational car ride into a gritty and compelling character study full of real emotion while providing an intriguing look into the lives of women in contemporary Iranian culture.
Theatrical Release:Mar 5, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: In TEN, celebrated Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Through the Olive Trees) once again casts his masterful cinematic gaze upon the modern sociopolitical landscape of his... [More]
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
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Reviews for Ten
This is vibrant, gritty filmmaking that proves that Kiarostami is still one of the most consistently fascinating filmmakers of our times.
09/11/02
A major minimalist departure for Kiarostami.
07/10/03
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04/23/09
An unconventional and remarkably moving chamber piece.
10/20/02
No ordinary moviegoer, whether Iranian or American, can be expected to relate to [Kiarostami's] films. They exist for film festivals, film critics and film classes.
04/11/03
Top CriticA film made by a master, with a simplicity that is really revolutionary.
04/10/03
Top CriticNo review available.
01/25/06
Works in its own mysterious ways.
05/11/03
Thoughtful insight and human concern are evident...but...there is no dramatic momentum whatever.
03/30/03
Ten has been praised as a further distillation of Kiarostami's already minimalist cinema. That's true enough, even if his movies still have a tendency to make us carsick.
04/11/03
Stark, experimental and surprisingly affecting.
04/11/03
... [S]ticking with it provides further insight into Kiarostami’s psychology and society ...
12/31/03
No review available.
09/29/05
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12/30/06
A glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.
03/06/03
Top CriticCumulatively, the episodic conversations paint a vivid picture of contemporary Iranian life and, especially, of the place of women in the post-revolutionary era.
08/20/02
One of the most casually progressive of the recent Iranian films, presenting its predominantly female cast as candid, freethinking and completely sympathetic.
10/02/02
A point made to distraction.
06/25/03
Lacks the spiritual foundation, the individual search for beauty in the face of the world's indifference, that is the hallmark of Kiarostami's oeuvre.
03/19/03
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