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(1 - 15) of 15 OFCS Rating: 47% Rotten Page   1   B- "The expansive dramatic approach makes sense, even at its most cringe-inducing, as Stoning is a picture created solely to disturb and provoke, not educate. With those goals in mind, the film is a smashing success."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C- "...there is something condescending and judgmental in the filmmaker's subtext that seems to exonerate Western culture as somehow less complicit in the atrocious murders that it commits against innocent and guilty citizens alike."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The gallant, educated, and sensitive outsider, will do right by Soraya, unlike the loathsome, fearful, and petty neighbors who killed her."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/4 "...reduces an admittedly devastating subject matter to a series of eye-rollingly hoary clichés and stereotypes."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "The point that it's making about the treatment of women under traditional Islam and the inhumane modes of punishment still prevalent in many countries...is sufficiently important that, with all its flaws, it deserves to be seen."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "Graphically depicts the horrors inflicted on an innocent woman in an Iranian village, the result of a fatal combination of a patriarchal society, tribal traditions, and Islamic fundamentalism."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/5 "It’s a big ol’ wallow in unpleasantness, a film that relies on simplistically patriarchal antagonists and vague, wet-willie cries for intervention."   Time Out New York   Keith Uhlich C "Anyone who thought "The Passion of the Christ," with which this film shares producer Stephen McEveety and star Caviezel, was its own form of torture porn, be forewarned."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 8/10 "The story is simple and compelling and the title leaves no doubt where the story is going. This is a powerful film for those willing to see its extreme violence."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 1.5/4 "The Stoning of Soraya M. functions as a message-movie slasher film."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "An exploitative propaganda piece that seems to exist for only one queasy reason--to allow Western audiences to witness the sight of a woman being brutally stoned to death in a sequence staged with all the sadistic delectation of a slasher movie."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 7/10 "Many films have shown more explicit (and often gratuitous) violence, but the impact is greater in this film as it is intensely personal ..."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh "It's disappointing that such a serious issue and a passionate cry of outrage is cloaked in such a manipulative melodrama."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker C+ "Like The Magdalene Sisters, Soraya M offers its audience only those appalling truths they want to know about the evils of an alien culture they are already inclined to look down upon."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 15) of 15 OFCS Rating: 47% Rotten Page   1