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Paradise Now
Directed by
Hany Abu-Assad
2005
90m
PG-13
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Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
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Cast of Paradise Now
Ali Suliman
Khaled
Amer Hlehel
Jamal
Hiam Abbass
Said's mother
Ashraf Barhom
Abu Karem
Mohamed Bustami
Abu Salim
Lubna Azabal
Suha
Qais Nashif
Said
Dirar Suleiman
Taxidriver Said
Jamel Daher
Car Owner (voice)
Lutuf Nouasser
Car Owner
Nour Abd El-Hadi
Said's Sister
Olivier Meidinger
Abu-Shabaab
Paradise Now Reviews
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
A risk-taking but enlightening film that takes the novel approach of examining the Israeli-Arab impasse from the perspective of the Palestinians.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
[A] sensitive, occasionally didactic film.
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
It would be difficult to undertake a more politically relevant film or explore a more volatile subject, and Abu-Assad attempts his project with skill and sensitivity.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
... it says more about Middle Eastern politics from the Palestinian side than any movie, period.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Certainly what Said says will not come as a surprise to any Israeli. It's simply that they disagree. We may disagree, too, and yet watch the film with a fearsome fascination.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The film offers food for thought, and reminds us that, in any war, one who understands the mindset of his opponent gains an important tactical advantage.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Writer-director Hany Abu-Assad can't tell the entire story in Paradise Now, but he can show glimmers of it.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
With a documentarian's eye and a dramatist's urgency, Abu-Assad sneaks into the mind of a suicide bomber, and also his heart.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A movie hardly lacking for anxiety and uneasiness.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Asks the big questions and answers quite a few of them, although its ending is tantalizingly ambiguous.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The film captures the bleakness of the West Bank and, more powerfully, shows us lives so grim that the thought of paradise now seems enticing.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
The movie is driven by the characters' passionate, despairing arguments about the fine line between victimization and violence. But Paradise Now also has, at times, an almost surreal visual flair.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's too simply reasoned and too tidily made to shake you up.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film continues to twist and turn until the very end, keeping us guessing as to what the would-be martyrs will do.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Ken Tucker
... remarkable ...
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Very good.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I felt that I was no closer to understanding the psychology of suicide bombers than I had been before.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Paradise may not change anyone's ideology, but it should convince some that, but for some deeply divisive views of religious morality, people are pretty much the same on either side of the holy fence.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Troubling but excellent.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Paradise catches and keeps your attention because of its daring subject, real-life backdrops and the intensity of its actors.
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