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Kippur
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Kippur reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 75 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.5 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not rated

Starring Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Ran Klauzner, and Yoram Hattab

A look at the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Israel was attacked by Syria and Egypt on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Movie focuses on the fictionalized exploits of a small military unit assigned to remove the wounded from the Golan Heights combat areas.


GENRE(S): War  
WRITTEN BY: Amos Gitai
Marie-Jose Sanselme
 
DIRECTED BY: Amos Gitai  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: August 28, 2001 
Video: August 28, 2001 
Theatrical: November 3, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 124 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: France / Israel 
LANGUAGE(S): Hebrew (with English subtitles) 

What The Critics Said

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90
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Though Kippur seems a creature radically different -- more nakedly autobiographical, more naturalistic, more forgiving -- from Gitai's highly conceptual and stylized body of work, there are clear thematic continuities.
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90
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective.
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90
Film.com David D'Arcy
Don't miss it.
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88
Boston Globe Jay Carr
A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.
83
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Intense, autobiographically based drama.
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80
TV Guide Ken Fox
Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat.
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80
Village Voice J. Hoberman
At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.
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79
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Formally astute, visually arresting, and fearlessly horrifying.
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75
Miami Herald Marta Barber
Shot mostly with a hand-held camera and in the gray hues you expect from the gruesome landscape, Kippur is highly sophisticated in its action scenes.
75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Both a blood-churning war movie and a mind-stirring antiwar movie, focusing not on guts and glory but on the stark realities of real battlefield experience.
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70
Variety David Stratton
A cumulatively devastating and visceral insight into the horrors of war.
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67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
At more than two hours, Kippur is something of an ordeal.
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63
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Rather than heightening our sense of empathy, we become numbed by the repetition.
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63
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Undeniably powerful, grimly fascinating.
60
The New York Times Dana Stevens
Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.
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