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61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    Director and co-writer Eytan Fox is going for a sexually democratic, politically aware variation on story themes familiar to "Sex and the City" viewers. (At one point Lulu is referred to as "Miss Israeli Carrie Bradshaw.") Surprisingly, it works, and the entire cast is excellent.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    Fox stumbles a little at the end, which is unnecessarily exaggerated. He should have trusted his own talent - it's the attention to minor details that makes his work so memorable.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    75
    The Bubble surprises us at every turn.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    70
    One might question the operatic finale, which doesn't quite have the inevitability of the greatest tragic love stories. But the film's humanism gives it an overwhelming impact. To Israeli audiences, the experience must be even more explosive.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    70
    Given the upbeat, tender rhythms of the movie's love story, the climax--a cry of bottomless despair--comes as a profound shock. It's meant to, and though the ending is touched by the goofy absurdities of melodrama, Fox's mix-and-match sampling of apparently incompatible genres nails the nervous blend of vitality and desperation that is Israel today.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    70
    It's only when The Bubble takes a swift turn into domino-tipping tragedy in the final act that a tender, fraught love story feels casually discarded in favor of something psychologically pat and ham-fistedly earth-shattering.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    70
    Mr. Fox may be a romantic, but he understands that love is rarely all you need.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    70
    Eytan Fox delivers another involving tale in The Bubble.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    50
    Sweet tempered but occasionally simplistic youth picture about three young, progressive Israelis who share a flat in a chic section of Tel Aviv.
  10. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Tasha Robinson
    50
    Real love is often as complicated and painful as Middle Eastern politics, and Fox might have been better off acknowledging that, rather than making his characters such vague, sweet, safe ciphers.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    38
    The comedy is without distinction and the conclusion is melodramatic. I must note that ads for the film are misleading because they give no hint of the dark side of The Bubble.
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7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 1 out of 1
  1. IanP.
    1
    Good acting, but melodramatic, horrible ending, full of cliches about Jews, Arabs, gays. Tries to be everything to everyone and ends up failing at every turn. They should have focused on hipsters in Tel Aviv, instead of trying to tell a "bigger" story about the Mideast conflict.… Full Review »
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