Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It starts, as so many horrible things do, without even a glimmer of the terror to come. Young ...

From two-time Palestinian/Dutch Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad (“Omar”), “Huda’s Salon” tells the story of two Palestinian women whose lives are threatened by patriarchal forces out of their ...

Huda’s Salon peaks early, during the only scene that’s actually set at Huda’s Salon. Located in occupied Palestine—the film’s English subtitles pointedly never refer to Israel by name, only as “the ...

Early on in “Huda’s Salon,” a tense, tricky psychological thriller from Palestinian writer-director Hany Abu-Assad, a woman named Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi) races down the street in a panic, clutching ...

Wife and new mother Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi) visits Huda’s hair salon in occupied Bethlehem for the usual treatment: a trim and blow dry, a little gentle gossip, a heart-to-heart. She leaves weighted ...

A Palestinian political thriller called "Huda's Salon" centers on two women who face a terrible choice - betray yourself or your country. Film critic Bob Mondello says if it were only that simple. BOB ...

In Hany Abu-Assad’s pulpy thriller, two Palestinian women are trapped between political enemies that are united in their misogyny. By Devika Girish When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Hany Abu-Assad’s gripping thriller, “Huda’s Salon” is based on true events. In Bethlehem, Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi), a Palestinian, is getting her hair done by Huda (Manal Awad). But after she sips some ...

Loosely based on true events, Hany Abu-Assad’s handsome spy yarn is charged by the powerful performances of its two main women. Hair salons are sacred spaces. Where else could one catch up on the ...

The filmmaker seems eager to twist "Huda's Salon" into a more tense outing. But what tension can there ever be when you already know how this will all end? It starts ...