
Beyond Honor is a heart-stopping, emotionally resonant portrayal of gender roles and the dynamics of power in a claustrophobic immigrant family living in Southern California.... (Full plot summary below)
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Beyond Honor is a heart-stopping, emotionally resonant portrayal of gender roles and the dynamics of power in a claustrophobic immigrant family living in Southern California.
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| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghRaised in Mumbai, classically trained actor-turned-writer-director Khanna addresses the volatile issue of women's rights within Islamic households, and if his sensationalistic debut feature makes its point with a heavy hand, it's also starkly effective. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerThough it can't hide occasionally crude dramatics, pic is an undeniably bold and daring tragedy. |
| Village VoiceR. Emmet SweeneyThis mélange of softcore porn, overheated melodrama, and harrumphing moralizing transcends taste--its lurid insanity goes beyond good and bad, right and wrong. |
| The New York TimesLaura KernAmateur acting, a wobbly script and a hard-to-swallow finale round out the film, which will, sadly, invoke ridicule in place of shock and anguish. |
| L.A. WeeklyTim GriersonTerrible movies about trivial subjects are commonplace and inconsequential, but a terrible movie that grapples with potentially inflammatory subject matter is far worse, because its aspirations are higher - which makes the failure of Varun Khanna's moralistic drama all the more spectacular. |
| Los Angeles TimesSam AdamsAs the movie turns into a shrill revenge tragedy, complexity is discarded. The characters might as well be stapled to Popsicle sticks. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeaturing one-note characterizations, laughable dialogue, an overwrought musical score and technically poor filmmaking values, the film ultimately is utterly reprehensible. |
| User ReviewSoniaS.This is one of the most powerful films that I have seen. I can't believe this happens in our world. A tragedy on the level of the great Greek tragedies. Compeling. It left me and my girlfriend riveted to the screen. Had to wait for people to leave the theatre before we could back on our legs. This one gets a 10. Super acting. What a great movie. |
| User ReviewAndrewR.Grips you from the very onset. A feeling of foreboding throughout the entire film. A feeling of inpending tragedy. I agree that in parts there may have been some "emoting," but the film carried titself very well. An excellent film, about an awful topic. An excellent first film for Varun Khanna. I forecast many powerful films based on this first one.Excellent score. Excellent casting. Excellent storyline.Excellent sensitive representation on social commentary.Searing performances by Osuna and Andrawis. |
| User ReviewMike HAfter the movie ends the audience is informed about the pervasiveness of female genital mutilation. This evidences the disingenuous and completely ludicrous plot of the movie. The acting and the plot points are anyone with at least two brain cells working in concert. Beyond Honor pretends to be about the clashing of Islamic and western culture when, in reality, it merely exploits this clash that is alluded to in a very pretentious, hokey, distasteful and disgusting manner. There is an any action of immorality or abuse depicted in this movie that couldn't have been ameliorated by simply calling the police. I consider this to be one of the worst movies I've ever watched. As painful as it was I decided to watch it to the end simply out of curiosity and a very slim possibility that some home it might redeem itself. It didn't. |