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Manuscripts Don't Burn
Directed by
Mohammad Rasoulof
Not Rated
2013
2h 5m
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7.2
93%
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Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute, however, they are obliged to change their initial plans.
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Cast of Manuscripts Don't Burn
Ramin Parham
kian
Ali Nazarian
Khosrow
Mohammad Rasoulof
Director / Writer / Producer
Manuscripts Don't Burn Ratings & Reviews
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Sean Axmaker
Iranian filmmakers have a history of couching their criticisms of life in Iran in metaphor. This film puts its portrait of authoritarian oppression out in the open.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The result asserts the two-headed truism: Artists in many countries will always find grim, sometimes deadly opposition, and those same artists will continue to risk everything to remain alive inside.
Madison Movie
Rob Thomas
"Manuscripts Don't Burn" is one of the best films I've seen this year, and one of the hardest to watch.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Unlike Rasoulof and Panahi's previous, more metaphorical films, this one confronts its subject head-on with unflinching candor.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Dalton
A fairly gripping thriller, and Rasoulof's most angry work to date.
Variety
Alissa Simon
Mohammad Rasoulof's slow-burning, clandestinely made fifth feature is a brave, challenging look at Iran's feared security apparatus.
The Nation
Stuart Klawans
A strong, daring, haunting film.
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Louis Proyect
In a way, it makes as much sense to review this like any other movie as it does to review a mass demonstration or a strike. If you understand the film's political importance, you understand the need to see it and recommend it widely.
Movie Mezzanine
Dan Schindel
...[W]arts and all, this is a piece of work that needs to be disseminated and talked about.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
Its chilly, muted colors, claustrophobic framings and understated performances by an excellent cast recall '70s American suspensers such as "The Conversation" and "Klute."
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A slow-motion explosion of anti-authoritarian rage.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Manuscripts Don't Burn is more rueful than action-packed, yet it simmers with righteous refusal. That's what gives the movie a power no Bourne flick will ever match.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Rasoulof creates the sense that we're not only witnessing a bleak reality, but hovering inside of it, uncertain if the nightmare will ever end.
The Dissolve
Sam Fragoso
Rasoulof's dissident return to filmmaking is ultimately little more than a sporadically searing, unfocused and listless treatise on the pervasive censorship enforced by the autocratic Iranian government.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
Harrowing, defiant, and exemplifying through its very existence the moral courage its totalitarian villains stamp down ...
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
The film observes rather than thrills, methodically demonstrating: this is how it happens. This tone and the even-keel direction avoid the trappings of a screed. It's actually a quiet but angry film.
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