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The Taqwacores
Directed by
Eyad Zahra
Not Rated
2010
83m
Drama
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5.8
41%
49%
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A powerful, original, and hilariously irreverent story of punk Islam in the USA and the discovery of oneself within the confines of religion.
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Cast of The Taqwacores
Noureen DeWulf
Rabeya
Jim Dickson
Gas Station Bully
Volkan Eryaman
Amazing Ayyub
Denise George
Dee Dee Ali
Bobby Naderi
Yusef
Dominic Rains
Jehangir Tabari
Anne Leighton
Lynn
Eyad Zahra
Director / Producer
Michael Muhammad Knight
Writer
The Taqwacores Ratings & Reviews
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
A missed opportunity that is at once strenuously sincere and painfully misguided - a ham handed cry for tolerance that doesn't do its characters, or its subject, justice.
NPR.org
Mark Jenkins
Unapologetically episodic, the movie is designed to awe and shock... and to plunge viewers into a world whose fury is half exotic and half typical of any group of unruly adolescents.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
This earnest adaptation of Michael Muhammad Knight's novel is too busy processing events to fully understand them. But director Eyad Zahra is so enthusiastic that he wins us over anyway.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
As a misfit-centric slap at religious conformity, the story's premise couldn't be more primed for trenchant social comedy, but screenwriter Knight and director Eyad Zahra opt for maintaining a thin veneer of tiresome obnoxiousness...
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
The shaky narrative style and broad characterizations undo its effectiveness, though the climactic concert sequence... will possess an undeniable fascination for wide-ranging music connoisseurs.
Film Journal International
Frank Lovece
No profit will shine a light on this youth-drama of Muslim-American punk rockers.
Shared Darkness
Brent Simon
Often feels less 'real,' and more like a stumbling collection of characters tilting at windmills, peppered with moments designed for raw provocation, or that read as overly telegraphed issue statements on gender equality and sexual identity.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Why anybody should care about these people is the question of the week.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
The storytelling is so muddled and the filmmaking so unpolished - and not in a good way - that mostly this movie is just unpleasant.
AV Club
Noel Murray
The Taqwacores deepens as it plays out, and rewards viewers who stick with it through the clumsier passages.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
The first sign The Taqwacores will be rough-going is when a character shows up in a burqa covered in crust-punk patches... and it's not a gag.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Eyad Zahra's The Taqwacores pays lip service to its characters with the same self-importance of a '90s-era episode of The Real World.
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