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Kippur

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Kippur reviews
75
9.5 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): War

Written by: Amos Gitai
Marie-Jose Sanselme

Directed by: Amos Gitai

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 3, 2000
DVD: August 28, 2001

Running Time: 124 minutes, Color

Origin: France / Israel

Summary

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.

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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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