Neon It Was Just an Accident
Directed by Jafar Panahi · 2025
It Was Just an Accident (2025) has a 87% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
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Is It Was Just an Accident worth watching?
Yes — It Was Just an Accident earns a 87% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
Critics Consensus
Jafar Panahi turns a chance encounter into a tense moral interrogation of state cruelty, channeling his own history of imprisonment into a thriller that argues its politics through pure narrative tension rather than speeches.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
Critics (98%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (88%).
What is It Was Just an Accident about?
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
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