Neon It Was Just an Accident
Directed by Jafar Panahi · 2025
Quick Verdict
It Was Just an Accident (2025) has a 87% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Fresh — recommended by most critics and audiences.
87%
Celluloid Score Fresh Averaged from 5 sources
98% Critic Score
88% Audience
91 Metascore
★★★★☆ Letterboxd 4.2
7.5 IMDb /10
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%).
Synopsis
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
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