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87
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86
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84
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83
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82
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82
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82
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82
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81
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81
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80
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78
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74
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70
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69
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45
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42
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42
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40
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38
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36
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35
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28
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28
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22
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18
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16
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Walk On Water
Samuel Goldwyn Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Lior Ashkenazi,
Knut Berger,
Caroline Peters,
Gideon Shemer,
Hanns Zischler,
and
Carola Regnier
A colorful and very contemporary road movie that takes its characters around Israel and later to Berlin. This unique movie, is a non traditional attempt to understand the role that is still played by the past in the lives of Israeli and German young people. (IDP Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
|
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Gal Uchovsky
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Eytan Fox
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 30, 2005
Theatrical: March 4, 2005
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
104 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Israel |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
English / German / Hebrew (with English subtitles) |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
At times too movieish, yet Ashkenazi creates a memorable figure: a spy who operates - admirably - out of the most unyielding nationalist conviction, only to learn that he needs to let some of that conviction go.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Fox keeps the suspense story at a low boil throughout, allowing the politics to emerge as the characters deepen.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Its suggestion that Israel, of all nations, should know better than to persecute minorities within and across its borders, give the film a thrilling universal appeal.

80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It denotes a minor movie miracle: how with intelligence, imagination and craft a small film can work in really large ways.

80
Empire
Sam Toy
The uniformly excellent performances feel real and familiar.

75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There’s something happening here and it isn’t exactly clear. What is clear is that Eytan Fox may yet make a great film for the 21st century.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Remains gripping until the final 15 minutes, when a series of sudden, unjustified plot twists leave us shaking our heads.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Compassionate and marvelously acted, although a subplot about the gay grandson slows the story down for a while.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Hits a bulls-eye.

70
The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
Though it is marred by an implausible climax and a cloying conclusion, this movie's quiet intelligence sneaks up on you, marking the director as a talent to watch.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The new Israeli film Walk on Water is complex and paradoxical, at times frustrating but always involving. Something like the country that produced it.

70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
All political thrillers, good or less good, have moral implications...Walk on Water, one of the better ones, has grave moral implications and does not ignore them or merely utilize them.

70
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Fox's film seems to say that the kind of saintly purity that would enable one to walk on water -- or to kill with impunity and without repercussions -- doesn't exist.

70
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Explores a wealth of issues and conflicting ideologies.

67
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Though its characters aren't terribly complex, and its plot holds few surprises, the screenplay (in English, German, and Hebrew) amounts to a worthy treatise on the need to forgo revenge.

63
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
An unexpected ode to peace.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Unfortunately for Fox, the softer his movie gets, the more Ashkenazi and Berger grow to resemble Ben Stiller and Ashton Kutcher in some unreleased, homo-erotic comic romance.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
The Israeli film works best in isolated spots early on as a series of intriguing character studies. Upon reaching to become a lesson to the world, however, Walk on Water goes off the deep end.

63
Chicago Tribune
Ellen Fox
Despite the film's pat plot turns and instructional tone, there are moments of charm, thanks to the fetching, committed cast.

63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The film nearly drowns in earnest morality.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Fox falters a bit with the narrative, but offers a fascinating treatment of the issues facing the descendents of Jewish victims and their German persecutors, as well as one of the most chilling birthday parties ever filmed.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Well-meaning but implausible story.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
When it unexpectedly shifts back into its initial thriller mode, Walk On Water loses in human drama what it gains in tidiness, revealing itself as a film that carries more weight in its light scenes than its heavy moments can sustain.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Despite its flaws, Walk on Water is a sometimes engaging story of emotional opposites who become mystifyingly attracted to each other.

50
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Attempts the miraculous but achieves the adequate.

50
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Fox can't decide if Walk on Water is a terrorist thriller or a gay buddy story, and neither can the viewer.

50
Village Voice
Leslie Camhi
The complex questions Walk on Water raises receive only confused answers.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Walk on Water makes you wonder what the Mossad is teaching its field agents these days.


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