The Patience Stone
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: August 14, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 14, 2013
Farahani — seen in “Body of Lies” and “Chicken With Plums” — is equally vibrant in a performance, and a film, that dares us to listen. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearAug 13, 2013
Better to think of this as a star vehicle for Farahani, who almost single-handedly carries the film; the range the Iranian actor displays here proves that she’s destined for bigger things. Fans will just have to be patient. Read full review
60
The DissolveKeith PhippsAug 13, 2013
For much of The Patience Stone, Farahani is the movie, and as she shifts from fear to despair to anger to emotions she’d never previously considered, her magnetic presence goes a long way toward putting a human face on the film, more successfully than the material around her. Read full review
50
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeAug 15, 2013
Farahani determinedly underplays her character, and is often very touching. But while there is a satisfying final scene, The Patience Stone is essentially a monologue, and Atiq Rahimi (directing the adaptation of his own novel) doesn’t have what it takes to make the story more dynamic. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloAug 14, 2013
There’s only so much anyone can do with a conceit that amounts to a movie-length speech delivered to a coma patient. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAug 13, 2013
The more typical approach transforms the material, and not for the better—rather than a revelation about how it feels to live her life, this feels like a document of what that life might look like as a conventional, often pokey movie. Read full review
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