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Young Ahmed
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
,
Luc Dardenne
Not Rated
2020
85m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
6.6
58%
52%
6.3
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A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.
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Young Ahmed Ratings & Reviews
Esquire Magazine
Nick Schager
The directors' aesthetics are as formally rigorous and evocative as ever, capturing the unyielding nature of zealotry, as well as the difficulty of loosening extremism's terrible grip on individuals' hearts and minds.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
ranks with the Dardennes's best films in terms of aligning us with a protagonist whose actions and worldview we may vigorously oppose, but with whom can't help empathizing
NME (New Musical Express)
Linda Marric
Young Ahmed can't resist the odd moment of melodrama, which sometimes feels out of place in an otherwise undiluted piece of social realism. This might not be vintage Dardennes, but it is still one of their most daring works to date.
The Gospel Coalition
Brett McCracken
Ahmed poses many difficult questions-about the nature of evil, rehabilitation, and the limits of empathy-that it leaves the audience to answer.
National Review
Armond White
Despite their sophistication, the Dardennes offer sop to the new Europe, awash in liberal pity and sitting-duck weakness.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
Carried by Idir Ben Addi's brilliant performance, Young Ahmed is an intriguing character study of one young man's fanaticism, though one is still left wanting something more.
Film Inquiry
Soham Gadre
The Dardennes' intimate hand-held camera work with close-ups draws us into Ahmed's conflicts, piercing through his lies and steadfast beliefs and uncovering the uncertainty that is characteristic of his youth.
Always Good Movies
Filipe Freitas
The conclusion is more ludicrous than shocking.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
It allows us to have the time and the space to just consider this young man and his choices... I admire that they try to get at something complicated in a simple, clear-eyed way.
Film Threat
Alex Saveliev
The performances are uniformly naturalistic and beautifully poignant. Introverted to the point of near-unreadability, with traces of feeling revealing a deep well of insecurity, Idir Ben Addi is magnificent in the lead.
TheWrap
Robert Abele
For perhaps the first time in the brothers' career, one of their movies feels like it's missing a key something: an understanding, or an inquisitiveness, or perhaps that framing known as judgment.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
One of their most extraordinary masterpieces.
NPR
Scott Tobias
It's a hugely flawed effort, turning many of the directors' strengths into liabilities, but it's also more thoughtful and complex than the insta-condemnations that were rained down on the basis of its premise alone.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
"Young Ahmed" is suspenseful and economical, with a clear sense of what's at stake, but something crucial - perhaps a deeper insight into the character or the contradictions that ensnare him - is missing.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The Dardennes maintain a distance from Ahmed as a way of celebrating their refusal to reduce him to any easy psychological bullet points.
Slant Magazine
Sam C. Mac
The Dardennes treat Young Ahmed as a kind of human-interest story, but with a huge dose of suspense thrown in.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
It's reasonably gripping on a scene-by-scene level, and about as starkly unsentimental as any of the Dardennes' lean, urgent moral thrillers.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
At times, one can practically see the brothers pulling the strings on the movie's potent themes, but they're such expert puppeteers that it's easy enough to ignore them and absorb the ride.
Variety
Peter Debruge
What the Dardenne brothers are showing here amounts to just the thing those shaken by terrorism fear most: the idea that normal people... can be brainwashed and body-snatched into agents of jihad.
The Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
In the end, Young Ahmed feels like little more than a pained shrug, elegantly made, yes, but vaporous and virtue-signaling an empathy that's more gestural than heartfelt.
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