60
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThanks largely to Tabatabai's superb performance, it's on this level that Maccarone's film is most affecting.
- With its deliberately overexposed film stock and driving electronic score, Ms. Maccarone's film occasionally suffers from a self-conscious artiness, but at its center is an extraordinary performance by Ms. Tabatabai as Fariba, a young woman whose expectations have been lowered by a lifetime of systematic mistreatment but who still holds out hope for the possibility of both justice and love.
- 63New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoTabatabai delivers a strong performance and the script, although not always plausible, touches on important issues like bias against gays and Muslims.
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe parts are more valuable than the whole in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled.
- 50VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleySeveral large leaps of faith take some of the dramatic steam out of Unveiled, an otherwise well-acted and accessible lesbian drama that also flirts with issues like loss of identity and anti-Muslim tensions.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceAn Iranian version of "Boys Don't Cry," Unveiled overflows with sociopolitical outrage even if its portrayal of a gender-confused heroine is ultimately indecisive and laconic.