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Although the shift in the film's gears isn't exactly smooth, it's an ambitious idea for a first-time filmmaker and Nayfeh brings home the sharp reality of the smuggling business.

This is an extremely well made movie, with exacting performances of the highest quality.

The narrative, based on a novel by co-screenwriter Sayed Kashua, veers off course only in the final scenes and an implausible resolution.

Writer/director Hany Abu-Assad emphasises the menace in the mundane.

Although at times it verges on turning into CSI Riyadh, The Kingdom is ultimately much smarter and better informed than most of its ilk.

Riklis has made a wise choice in turning real life political drama into a simple human interest story.

One of the dullest films about war ever made.

His [Abu-Assad's] controversial decision to place melodrama before morality, while allowing Paradise Now to transcend its hefty (and painfully current) ethical baggage, also allows us to empathise with its conflicted protagonist.

Abdallah El Akal channels an unsettling amount of loathing.