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Kadosh
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70 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    83
    An alternately angry and sad portrait, passionate in its presentation and moving in its portrayal of individuals who sacrifice their love for the tenets of their religion.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    The acting is uniformly superb, as is the rich, somber cinematography.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    78
    Raises fascinating question within a compelling narrative framework, and is also intriguing for the glimpse it provides into the inner workings of Orthodox Judaism.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    A very angry film.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: John Petrakis
    75
    A powerful indictment of a religious mind set and is sure to spark plenty of post-screening discussion.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    75
    A poetic and somber film that underscores the bum deal women usually get in any restrictive society.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    75
    Slowly unfolding but liberating film, which is also a rare look inside a circumscribed community.
  8. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    75
    A wonderfully understated work offering insights to a world where no emotion is simple.
  9. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    70
    This unusually classical story from experimental Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai flows along, suffused in a quiet beauty flecked with sober foreboding.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    70
    One of Gitaï's greatest assets in Kadosh is such stillness, which leaves facile outsiders' judgment out of the frame and thereby deepens our immersion in the narrative.
  11. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    70
    It is unusually but effectively organized as an almost unbroken chain of intimacies between the small and large players in this story.
  12. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    Gitai has created a film that is as beautiful as it is all but unbearable to watch.
  13. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    67
    If it happens to lose you as you wander through this strange land, at least it does so to the accompaniment of captivating visuals and music.
  14. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Marta Barber
    63
    It moves slowly, but you suspect that is the way of life in Mea Shearim, the closed quarters of a group that triggered Gitai's respect and our curiosity.
  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: John Hartl
    60
    Gitai, a veteran documentary director, refuses to find an easy resolution to the story, and that will frustrate as many people as it pleases.
  16. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    60
    It's hard to tell whether these characters are meant to seem as staunchly symbolic as they do when they deliver some of the back-story-heavy dialogue.
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