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Centered around a powerful performance from Majour Jabbari, Ava's coming-of-age story marks an assured debut for debuting writer-director Sadaf Foroughi.
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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (1)
Foroughi delivers a strong debut with a perfectly pitched performance from Mahour Jabbari. August 20, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Foroughi delivers a strong debut with a perfectly pitched performance from Mahour Jabbari.
Lillian Crawford
Ava is made with superb technique and real style. August 19, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ava is made with superb technique and real style.
Peter Bradshaw
Foroughi's visual storytelling is impressive. September 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Foroughi's visual storytelling is impressive.
Leah Pickett
Ava is a layered, complex character, and one that anyone who was ever a teenager can identify with. July 13, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Ava is a layered, complex character, and one that anyone who was ever a teenager can identify with.
Mick LaSalle
Foroughi finds the balance in an overwrought situation. April 27, 2018 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Foroughi finds the balance in an overwrought situation.
Kate Erbland
While Ava may not reach the rousing heights of the similarly-themed titles like Wadjda and Mustang, it certainly puts its sharp-eyed filmmaker Foroughi on the cinematic map. April 27, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
While Ava may not reach the rousing heights of the similarly-themed titles like Wadjda and Mustang, it certainly puts its sharp-eyed filmmaker Foroughi on the cinematic map.
Tomris Laffly
There's an earthy, realistic tone to this drama, which explores adolescent independence through the eyes of a teenage girl in Iran. August 27, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There's an earthy, realistic tone to this drama, which explores adolescent independence through the eyes of a teenage girl in Iran.
Rich Cline
Though the social politics can be hard to follow, Jabbari's performance is unforgettable, with hurt and rage emanating from her and multiplying as every slight chips away at Ava's sanity. August 24, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Though the social politics can be hard to follow, Jabbari's performance is unforgettable, with hurt and rage emanating from her and multiplying as every slight chips away at Ava's sanity.
Fatima Sheriff
You might still think the film loads itself with more misery than is good for it... but there are lots of perceptive, knotty moments, and Mahour Jabbari is excellent in the title role. August 24, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
You might still think the film loads itself with more misery than is good for it... but there are lots of perceptive, knotty moments, and Mahour Jabbari is excellent in the title role.
Edward Porter
There's a jagged emotional authenticity scored into the film like initials carved into a desk. August 22, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There's a jagged emotional authenticity scored into the film like initials carved into a desk.
Wendy Ide
Foroughi - yet another first timer - has made an auspicious and perceptive film about that real barriers facing the young and the steely defiance required to start pushing past them. August 21, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Foroughi - yet another first timer - has made an auspicious and perceptive film about that real barriers facing the young and the steely defiance required to start pushing past them.
Alistair Harkness
Ava is a singular vision marking Foroughi as a talent to watch. August 21, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ava is a singular vision marking Foroughi as a talent to watch.
Christopher Machell
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