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Chicken With Plums Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    70

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    A grand, romantic life story about love, loss, regret and the sadness that can be evoked by a violin - not only through music, but through the instrument itself. It is all melancholy and loss, and delightfully comedic, with enough but not too much magic realism. The story as it stands could be the scenario for an opera.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    Chicken With Plums is not a thoroughly delectable concoction, but its exotic flavor is worth sampling.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    It's not entirely satisfying, but there's plenty to savor in Chicken With Plums.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety

    The same winning balance of seriousness and humor that made "Persepolis" such a hit works equally well in Chicken With Plums.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Time Mary Pols

    You have no idea what's coming next, except that it will be wildly creative and beautiful. These two know how to mix up a very unusual and successful cinematic recipe.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    The result is captivating, but not exactly moving: Nasser-Ali's grand passion is posited rather than communicated, in spite of Mr. Amalric's exquisitely soulful performance.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    Both winsome and sophisticated, Chicken with Plums unfolds like a rich Persian carpet woven of memories and nostalgia in a colorful fantasy Iran of 1958, twenty years before the Islamic Revolution turned the country to somber grays.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Adapting Satrapi's graphic novel about a violinist (Mathieu Amalric) in late-1950s Tehran who's got a broken fiddle and a broken heart and takes to his bed, willing himself to die, the filmmakers rely on expressive eyes to carry a narrative style suitable for a silent movie.

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