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90Though 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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90Don't miss it.
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90A 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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88A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.
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83Intense, autobiographically based drama.
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80Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat.
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80At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.
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79Formally astute, visually arresting, and fearlessly horrifying.
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75Both 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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75Shot 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.
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70A cumulatively devastating and visceral insight into the horrors of war.
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67At more than two hours, Kippur is something of an ordeal.
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63Rather than heightening our sense of empathy, we become numbed by the repetition.
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63Undeniably powerful, grimly fascinating.
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60Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.