When you've reached the end of Abbas Kiarostami's stunning, dizzying Certified Copy, tell me how you'd define the relationship between the two main characters ... When you’ve reached the end of Abbas ...

‘Certified Copy” is the type of film that many critics have orgasms over and the general public finds about as appealing as dysentery. I’ll side with the general public on this one. The film does have ...

There are certain films that are simply magic. They are few and far between, and the experience of watching them often comes up over you. You realize you’re watching a masterpiece, and you don’t want ...

More compelling as an intellectual exercise than an emotional one, “Certified Copy” finds deep-thinking writer-director Abbas Kiarostami asserting there’s nothing new under the Tuscan sun, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Certified Copy, the first English-language film by the Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami, is a road-trip meditation on the complexities of marriage. Like almost all the work by this 71-year-old ...

Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us) is the sort of filmmaker whose very name whets the appetite of cinephiles, whether they are admirers or ...

Studio/Runtime: IFC Films/106 min. In the tradition of Journey to Italy and Before Sunrise, Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy consists almost entirely of two people talking with each other. The ...