Recensioni di Metacritic

This is one of the best movies of the year, featuring two of our finest actors at the top of their game. Wright’s lead performance is worthy of major award nominations, as is O’Connor’s supporting work.

This tightly focused character study is a tiny film, with an emotional effect in inverse proportion to its size.

It’s not an unfamiliar story, but Frank Berry’s delicate drama is immensely moving.

It’s an absorbing drama given sympathy and life by two very high-calibre performers.

Aisha is a portrait of unassailable dignity in the face of cruel happenstance.

Writer-director Frank Berry’s film never devolves into melodrama – if anything, it may be understated to a fault – but he grounds her plight in an authentic mixture of daily frustrations and sporadic joys.

It is a thoughtful and intelligent film, and it finds a gifted actor doing some very tricky things quite well.

“Aisha” resists tidy answers through the gentle force of its performances and by staying on the rebuffs and uncertainty Aisha suffers.

While passive and/or helpless characters rarely make for the most engaging protagonists, the sensitivity with which this story is told coupled with Wright’s performance makes for an experience that’s never less than engaging.

The stakes could not be more intimate and personal here, but as reassured as we might be that something like “due process” and “common sense” will prevail, Wright and O’Connor do a good job of playing people who aren’t so sure, whose faith in people — not the state — to show compassion has its limits.