Kippur
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  • Starring: Liron Levo, Tomer Russo
  • Summary: 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.

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  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    90
    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.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    80
    At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.

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