67 The A.V. Club | Noel Murray Deepens as it plays out, and rewards viewers who stick with it through the clumsier passages. The film is moving and thought-provoking. Read full review
65 NPR | Mark Jenkins Ideally, The Taqwacores should be seen with "Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam," a new documentary that provides a better sense of the scene's aims and motivations. Zahra's jumpy feature film captures much of taqwacore's energy, but less of its meaning. Read full review
60 New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman The actual Taqwacore movement is distilled in blatantly simplistic fashion, but Zahra does capture the novel's adolescent excitement, in which a new generation rediscovers rebellion all over again. Read full review
40 Time Out New York | David Fear Whether anyone over the age of 16 will find the film's proud amateurism and choir-preaching personally enlightening, much less profound, is anyone's guess. Read full review