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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerDirector Rola Nashef's visuals can be clunky, and her script's conversational dialogue is occasionally stilted. Nonetheless, she draws her characters in sharp lines, so that the gaggle of customers who frequent Sami's workplace...feel not like types but, rather, like diverse individuals.
- 70The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerDetroit Unleaded is about as gentle as comedies come these days, commendably so.
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineIt compellingly engages with the specific problems of a cultural group rarely represented in American film, but it too easily and abruptly resolves its main characters' problems.
- 60Time OutTime OutIt winningly pays homage to the apparently nationwide fraternity of Arab-American mini-mart owners, while letting the Motor City setting provide the economic commentary.
- 60The DissolveAndrew LapinThe DissolveAndrew LapinThe film’s engine stalls from time to time, but it never dies—much like the city it’s set in.
- 38RogerEbert.comSteven BooneRogerEbert.comSteven BooneThe trouble here is a lack of texture and urgency.