Rashevski's Tango
Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 5 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: S. James Snyder
    60
    Director Sam Garbarski’s focus occasionally skews narrow, but he does evoke the anxiety of reconciling a strict faith with secular times.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    50
    The Rashevski Tango begins and ends with a burial, but the movie teems with cranky life, then heals all rifts with a dance that sets a seal of comically erotic approval on that undying genre, the domestic melodrama.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    50
    In the end, though, Mr. Garbarski makes no judgments, which leaves this film feeling sweet but light: we already knew that Judaism, like most other religions, is an ever-evolving collage.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    50
    Picture touchingly conveys the everyday closeness of the Rashevskis, who are wont to tango their troubles away, but spiritual upheavals and tonal shifts feel artificial and strained.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    40
    The central metaphor of dance, though, is forced, a standard-issue cliché about dancing away problems.

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