The Stoning of Soraya M.

After watching the injustice and betrayal that Soraya, the lead character, suffered in this film I can no longer be silent about the injustice going on in this world today. The human rights violations happening in our world stabs at the... Full review

Amazing movie. Really powerful, it shines a light on today's reality, where there is injustice, and how some women are being treated. what happened to Soraya is still happening today, please watch this movie in support for the suffering of those... Full review

Is this the BEST movie sxince P2. OMG! This movie pwnzzzzzz!!!! I was all like omg at the awesome screenplay. Superbly believable dialogue and acting. Just the best ever. Reminds me of "The Doom Generation." Really! You will be morbidly curious... Full review

I almost didn't go see The Stoning of Soraya because of how graphic I heard it was, but I was invited to an early screening and it blew me away. It's shocking and hard, but I feel like everybody needs to... Full review

This film is breathtaking beyond words. It honestly left me speechless. I struggle even to put this review into words. It show's the brutal reality of abuse and discrimination in a powerful way. The tears in the eyes of Soraya's children... Full review

This is such a powerful movie. I can't believe stoning is still being practiced. I'm trying to understand different cultures and customs but this is ridiculous. Will have to see the movie again. It is a must-see. I knew the tragic... Full review

it's almost deceptive how beautiful the film looks with it's tragic and senseless ending. the film looks gorgeous but there is such an ugly truth behind it - that stoning still happens in parts of the world today. i know this... Full review

AMAZING to drive thru traffic being stopped at Wilshire and Sepulveda (where there were over a thousand people dressed in green waving red, white and green Iranian flags on the corner) over to the premiere of this devastatingly powerful film...and then... Full review

Abuse of power, Betrayal, Manipulation, and Injustice, the good old boys club especially when you through the gender discrimination in the mix! A gruesome story is being delivered through a great cinematography, amazing cast of talent, and, an in-your-face style. June... Full review

Soraya's husband Ali has tired of Soraya after having four children with her, and wants to marry the 14-year-old daughter of one of his prisoners. He can't afford two wives, so he demands a divorce from Soraya, who refuses for economic... Full review

"The Stoning of Soraya M." is a relentlessly grim and powerful movie with terrific acting....a sustained, horrific ending that's not for the squeamish.....Cruel reality is behind powerful story....The film's terrible outcome is telegraphed early on and feels relentlessly oppressive, making it hard at times to sit through.....Marno offers a powerful performance as the wife who maintains her dignity and grace.... ... Full Review

Although the film adaptation powerfully condemns the act, director Cyrus Nowrasteh extends the climactic scene to lengthy and brutal dimensions.....The stoning scene is painfully, pointlessly drawn out for more than 15 minutes..... ... Full Review

The Stoning of Soraya M is ugly and upsetting viewing..... ... Full Review

A great cause doesn't necessarily make a great film....fighting for a great cause, the abolition of public torture in the Muslim world, necessarily makes for a great film..... ... Full Review

The movie, which also stars Shohreh Aghdashloo ( House of Sand and Fog ) as Soraya's increasingly desperate aunt and Jim Caviezel as a French journalist, is so heavy-handed and simplistic....The Stoning of Soraya M. is a slow, inexorable slog to the titular event --.... ... Full Review

By maintaining the title of the best-seller on which it's based, the makers of The Stoning of Soraya M. at least have the courtesy to let audiences know what they're in for. ... Full Article

Starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno, Navid Negahban, David Diaan, Parviz Sayyad, Jim Caviezel. Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. 116 minutes. In Farsi with subtitles. Cumberland, Sheppard Grand. 14A Released when anti-Iranian sentiment is running high in the West, The Stoning of... ... Full Article

Adapted from French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam's best-selling book of the same name, The Stoning of Soraya M. is a movie at odds with itself: its factually based account of a rural Iranian woman (played by Mozhan Marn?), framed by her... ... Full Article

"The Stoning of Soraya M." is based on an incident that occurred in Tehran in 1986. But, after watching all the violence following the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran in recent weeks, it could seem like current events. ... Full Article

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Her accent, jet-black hair and other features don't exactly make Shohreh Aghdashloo the girl next door, she says. "But I keep working." And working and working. ... Full Article