Fill the Void
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81

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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    May 23, 2013
    100
    What the film makes clear, with unfailing sensitivity and wry humor, is that for Shira and her family the ordinary arrangements of living are freighted with moral and spiritual significance.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    May 31, 2013
    91
    Implicit in this film is a simple truth: The sheer force of artistry has the power to convert outsiders into insiders. I left Fill the Void feeling privileged, however briefly, to have been brought into this world.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    May 23, 2013
    90
    A transfixing, emotionally complex Israeli drama.
  4. NPR
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    May 23, 2013
    85
    Burshtein refuses to engage with the culture wars that flare fiercely between secular and religious types in Israel; in fact she's trying to avoid types of any kind, which may be why secular audiences and critics have embraced her rapturous depiction of a community living its life, more separate from than at odds with the society beyond.
  5. Movie Nation
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    Jun 26, 2013
    75
    Fill the Void’s greatest virtue is in the ways her characters take us beyond stereotypes even as she herself questions the value system of a culture that is so focused on religion, marriage and procreation that it holds few attractions to those not born into it.
  6. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    Jun 13, 2013
    75
    An elegant miniature, Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void labors under a narrative inevitability, but it's artful work nonetheless.
  7. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Oliver Lyttelton
    May 21, 2013
    42
    Burshtein has devoted most of the last 20 years teaching and making film in that world, but here makes her international feature debut with a curious comedy-drama that has its strengths, but ultimately proves somewhat disappointing.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. kos2
    May 27, 2013
    10
    Refreshingly emotionally involving, this is not at all your typical Hollywood movie. Eschewing dependence on action, this film seeks to explore the world of Haredim in Jerusalem. Many non-Jews may miss cues and actions which may seem confusing or questionable to the outside world (but are understood by Orthodox Jews). Nevertheless, the way the Burshtein draws you into the characters' world strongly enables one to feel the tensions through which they go through. Very rewarding.… Expand
  2. netflic
    Jun 8, 2013
    8
    This is a high quality drama about life, death, family and tradition. Not a single note is phony here. The attention to details is exceptional. The movie is slow but emotionally charged. A bit too much of ceremonial rituals to my liking. Overall, the movie is Oscar caliber.… Expand

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