Read PopMatters on your Kindle

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/film/reviews/56442/the-kite-runner1/

The Kite Runner

Director: Marc Forster

Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Homayon Ershadi, Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, Shaun Toub, Nabi Tanha, Ali Dinesh, Saïd Taghmaoui

(Paramount Vantage, 2007) Rated: PG-13

US DVD release date: 25 March 2008 (Dreamworks)

[24 March 2008]

by Elizabeth Cho

This is a sensitive, kind adaptation of a well-loved book, and the DVD has well-crafted features that help extend the message of what is essential to human existence: hope.

‹‹ Read the full article

Add a comment

Please enter your name and a valid email address. Your email address will not be displayed. It is required only to prevent comment spam.

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Please enter the sequence of letters and numbers you see in the image above. Do not include any spaces.

Related articles
The Kite Runner

Review: The Kite Runner

Cynthia Fuchs
14.Dec.07

The Kite Runner shows that even if Baba could make his boy perfectly courageous and honest, outside forces inevitably affect even the most careful plans for the future.

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Review: Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Jack Patrick Rodgers
09.Mar.07

Stranger than Fiction isn’t sure if it wants to be a comedy that relies on stereotypes in order to accentuate the humor, or a drama with the absurdities played as deadpan as possible.

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Review: Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Cynthia Fuchs
10.Nov.06

Maybe Professor Hilbert knows exactly how right he is, given the film's relentless archness: it knows that you know that it knows it's meta.

 
 
Recent Film

More Film

In bold are PopMatters Picks, the best new films.

 

DVDs