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Persepolis (2007) Rank 2 Reviews
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Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
ShowBizCafe.com (Ted Faraone)
Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
Satrapi is as engaging and wry a storyteller on the screen as she is on the page. Her most difficult decision must have been deciding what to omit from the books. ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
A strong contender for this year's foreign language film Oscar -- and the only worthy competition for Ratatouille in the animated film category. ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
RogerEbert.com (Jim Emerson)
What is that supposedly ancient Chinese curse? "May you live in interesting times"? The proverb may be of dubious origin, but it captures the fate of Marjane, the heroine of "Persepolis," in a Persian nutshell. The precocious Iranian girl is born during ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at RogerEbert.com (Jim Emerson)
Boxoffice Magazine (Richard Mowe)
Anyone with lurking suspicions that animation is purely for kids should have those preconceived ideas totally overturned by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis, which won the shared jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Based on ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Richard Mowe)
New York Press (Eric Kohn)
Language is key to the success of the animated oddity Persepolis. Not the spoken language—which is French, even though most of time we’re supposed to imagine that the Iranian characters are conversing in Persian. The ingenuity lies in the movie’s vi ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at New York Press (Eric Kohn)
Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
Village Voice (Nick Pinkerton)
Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation—though it moves fluidly enough, and its drawings have a handcrafted charm forgotten in the era of the cross-promoted-to-saturation CGI-'toon juggernauts—but becau ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at Village Voice (Nick Pinkerton)
Slate (Dana Stevens)
When Ratatouille was released this past summer, I thought it was one of the best animated films I'd ever seen—certainly finer than anything else in that category that could come along in the same year. I still hold Pixar's gourmet rodent near to my ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at Slate (Dana Stevens)
New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis is based on the graphic novels by Ms. Satrapi (Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return). The film and the novels derive their title from the name of the Persian ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
MovieMartyr.com (Jeremy Heilman)
With the political message of Persepolis considerably softened, the overall effect is dulled significantly. ...read the complete Persepolis movie review at MovieMartyr.com (Jeremy Heilman)
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