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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    As in David Lean's "Brief Encounter," the suspense in Cairo Time comes from what doesn't happen between its pair of "lovers." Read full review

  • 80
    New York Magazine | David Edelstein

    Think "In the Mood for Love" with hookahs instead of chopsticks. Read full review

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Ms. Clarkson's performance as Juliette, the fashion-writer wife of a United Nations functionary, is the film's reason for being. She makes yearning palpable. She turns mysterious silences into a language of love. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    It's a haunting and hypnotic film. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    The melancholic, beautiful Cairo Time confirms two things that hardly need confirming: The Egyptian capital is a breathtaking metropolis, and Patricia Clarkson is one of the best actors in the world. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Cairo Time is affectingly gentle, with Juliette slowing down to open up -- a gossamer transformation that Clarkson makes tangible. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    The time does pass agreeably enough, and if Cairo Time does not amount to much, it does evoke a wistful state of feeling and a complicated city with enough skill and sensitivity that you wish it had dared more. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    Cairo Time may be your ticket if you're in the mood for love, but the excursion is a cut-rate journey. Read full review

  • 60
    New York Daily News | Joe Neumaier

    Writer-director Ruba Nadda's film is ultimately like a summertime flirtation that never quite comes to anything. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety |

    The fourth feature from Canadian writer-helmer Ruba Nadda ("Sabah") has a slightly breathless, old-fashioned feel, calling to mind the cliched fiction found in the type of ladies' magazine the heroine edits. Read full review

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