Clash
Kino Lorber | Release Date: August 25, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungMay 21, 2016
Running the gamut from social comedy to actioner to war movie, Clash is an original, often quite disturbing experience to watch. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustSep 14, 2017
The filmmakers cultivate a dynamic portrait of Egypt, with its dense social, political and religious layers. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 21, 2017
The movie stunningly replicates that sense of inside and outside that must be felt by witnesses to any historic moment: the private debate, the enclosed conflict, and the theatre of confrontation unfolding beyond. What a dynamic piece of cinema. Read full review
80
Total FilmPhilip KempAug 21, 2017
The sense of angry desperation overwhelms. Read full review
80
CineVueMatthew AndersonAug 21, 2017
Taking place over the course of a little less than 24 hours, it is day-in-the-life cinema at its most pertinent. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonApr 18, 2017
The story is fictional, yet it builds up a chastening picture of divisive separate political and religious agendas holding sway over common humanity, and leading the country deeper into chaos. A striking, tough-minded achievement. Read full review
80
EmpireJimi FamurewaApr 18, 2017
This Cannes favourite regards Egypt’s recent political uprisings from a fascinating new angle. A minor masterpiece of claustrophobia and expertly managed tension. Read full review
80
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMay 21, 2016
This is a ferociously well-made film right through to the bitter end. Read full review
80
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 21, 2016
While the stand-off does have its scripted moments, Clash rises above this for two reasons. Firstly, it’s intensely cinematic.... Secondly, underlying the drama is a rather poignant lament for the unity and energy of Egyptian culture, something which comes through in a wealth of small details. Read full review
80
VarietyJay WeissbergMay 21, 2016
Boasting superb camerawork from d.p. Ahmed Gabr and stellar crowd direction, Clash might strike some as crossing too often into hysteria, yet this is bravura filmmaking with a kick-in-the-gut message about chaos and cruelty (with some humanity). Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNick AllenAug 25, 2017
Diab effectively creates a monster of blind hatred, and then holds all of us as captors and witnesses to a hateful world tearing itself apart. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyAug 23, 2017
Clash turns into a full-fledged horror movie, albeit one without the fake comfort of a supernatural or science-fiction pretext. It’s just man’s inhumanity to man, in full sway. Read full review
60
Village VoiceKristen Yoonsoo KimAug 24, 2017
Unfortunately, Clash buckles under the weight of its many characters. Read full review
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