1. These 10 sequences are moments frozen in time, which reveal a surprising amount about the emotional lives of the movie's characters.
2. Breezy, entertaining and enlightening.
3. This is vibrant, gritty filmmaking that proves that Kiarostami is still one of the most consistently fascinating filmmakers of our times.
4. Cumulatively, the episodic conversations paint a vivid picture of contemporary Iranian life and, especially, of the place of women in the post-revolutionary era.
5. Ten may be the director's first noticeable misstep, one that won't be accessible to those unfamiliar with Kiarostami's body of work and also maybe underwhelming to his fans. Still, it might be a misstep worth exploring.
6. The key achievement of this minimalist statement is that Kiarostami conveys these truths with nothing more than a simple two-camera setup and a series of naked emotions.
7. One of the most casually progressive of the recent Iranian films, presenting its predominantly female cast as candid, freethinking and completely sympathetic.
8. A marvel not only as a pioneering use of digital video but also as an affecting and multilayered parable about one woman's journey toward inner peace.
9. A conceptual tour de force and a brainiac's road movie, Abbas Kiarostami's Ten goes from chilly abstraction to hot emotion in less than 60 seconds.
10. Ten may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
Ten turns a conversational car ride into a gritty and compelling character study full of real emotion while providing an intriguing look into the lives of women in contemporary Iranian culture.