The Salesman Release Date

When an Iranian couple move into a new apartment, its previous tenant remains an unsettling presence.

Asghar Farhadi's film yields a tonal and emotional friction that's simultaneously tragic, transcendent, and comic.

With exquisite patience and attention to detail, Asghar Farhadi, the writer and director, builds a solid and suspenseful plot out of ordinary incidents, and packs it with rich a...

The new movie from Asghar Farhadi, the masterly Iranian director of 'A Separation' and 'The Past,' is another finely cut gem of neorealist suspense.

People of Earth: If you’ve never seen a movie by Asghar Farhadi, please, why not treat yourself?

Asghar Farhadi puts his spin on Death Wish (sort of) in The Salesman.

But there is still intense pleasure to be had simply experiencing Farhadi’s fleet-footed, thrilling storytelling, and in a more convincing and consistent manner than with the di...

An actor goes to cruel extremes in Asghar Farhadi’s drama of hurt pride and revenge.

What follows, in the final half hour of the movie, is an astounding chamber piece, worthy of Strindberg, with the husband, the wife, and her aggressor stuck in a dance of doubt ...

Director ably flexes his dramatic muscles in this slow burn story of a couple torn apart by a home invasion.

Excessively schematic plotting is a recurring weakness of writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s work. Films like About Elly and The Past suffered from contrived narratives, though th...

Like his Oscar-winning “A Separation,” Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s latest, nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film, is an expertly crafted domestic thriller. ...

The Salesman is tripped up by too many subplots.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman is a tense, visceral drama of wounded masculinity — and therein lies part of its problem.

A middle-class couple start to see cracks in the brickwork in the A Separation director’s new drama, a deft spin on Arthur Miller’s play.