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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungFilmmaker and actor Elia Suleiman uses his own face and body to express the soul of Palestine in his films, and nowhere more so than in his droll new comedy, It Must Be Heaven.
- 80VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergWhimsical and wistful yet infused with a yearning for the stability of place.
- 80CineVueChristopher MachellCineVueChristopher MachellA charming, deadpan study of national identities, an idiosyncratic love letter to his home and an unvarnished tribute to life’s universal absurdities.
- 75The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodHis film feels more like a collection of wonderfully envisioned set pieces that don’t fully form a coherent whole.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThere are times when the passive, elusive quality of It Must Be Heaven, as with other Suleiman films, eluded me and felt mannered and superficial, but they are stylishly made with a distinctive signature.
- 60Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallAudiences will likely approach the film a series of sketches linked as much by mood as by theme. Some hit the spot, two or three are laugh-out-loud funny, but others seem little more than space-fillers in a film that is both enjoyable and frustrating.
- 42The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaThe Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaBy the time Suleiman’s character finishes his world trip and returns home, all he leaves us with is the reassurance that the Palestinian people are resilient and, eventually, will be free as well. That’s a terribly lazy note to end on. Some might even call it trivializing.