Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

adonis98-743-186503 A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. Agora benefits from an incredible perfomance from Rachel Weisz in the title role and Oscar Isaac in a supporting role long before X-Men and Star Wars. The acting from the rest of the cast is also great, the settings and the locations are outstanding and the overall direction superb. Overall a great movie in general even if i didn't like the ending and the fact that some "masks" were thrown down from religions and it's people. (8/10)

denis888 This is one of the worst ( and I mean that - w o r s t) movies of all times. The merits are few, but it all is undermined by a blatant, loud, crude and crass agenda - it is all lies that try to depict early Christians as a mob of science-haters, wild fanatics and wanton murderers. Lies, and no acting, no props, no FXs and no efforts can save this mesh from a disaster. This is all lies, and I must say, I hated wasted time and the movie What is sad, with time, such films will become numerous and loud. This is a vivid example of how history is distorted and how truth is replaced with a pure lie. This movie can be seen once as an example of pseudo-accurate depiction of very dubious facts

eklavya cwk This average good movie holds something important. Now, why average good? Compare it to the 400 Blows, Apu Trilogy, Tokyo story and such others, there is a margin for best upto AgoraBut wondering what makes it special, I was displayed with two important aspects. The life of a Scientific Brain and the religious turmoil. If one thinks over it, the director made an absolute blend of Hypatia and people. Whereas one feels astound on her realization of the case of a perfect figure, the balanced figure circle itself being a special case of ellipse which can be realised through a cone as a conic section, at the same time we are visualised over how all kind of religious folks corrupt and misuse the simple and guiding principles. It doesn't take a moment or the beautiful idea to be moulded in the cruel and hampering thought just for personal ego satisfaction. One can justify anything everything and there will always be statements that will shut our mouth of logic for the logicality of those statements.Intentionally or unintentionally, the blend got great and significant.

Laakbaar This movie depicts 4th century Alexendria at a time when its streets were crowded with Greek philosophers, Ptolemaic Egyptians, Roman soldiers, Jews and early Christians. We focus on the library, although there was so much more to this important city at this time.The film succeeds spectacularly in bringing this to life. This alone makes the movie worth watching.But even more than that, the movie tells a story based on a series of events involving group of historical figures: Theon, Hypatia, Orestes, St Cyril of Alexandria and others. Hypatia is the interesting one here, passionately and credibly played by Rachel Weisz. The movie is not quite historically accurate, but it is a hell of a good story based loosely on historical events.But wait, even more than that, the film has religious fundamentalism and intolerance as its main theme. I guess you could say it takes the side of science over religion, freedom over faith, reason over madness. It shows the exact moment we entered the Dark Ages.In my second viewing, I came to appreciate Oscar Isaac's performance even more. He is a wonderful actor. The really powerful character here is Davus. I'm not sure this fascinating, complex character was properly fleshed out in the script, but it was a tremendous performance by Max Minghella.I absolutely loved this intelligent, moving and important movie. I wish all movies were like this. I didn't want the movie to end. They should use it as the basis for a mini-series.