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  • Summary: Alexandrowicz's documentary is an examination of the legal infrastructure put in place by Israel for the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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  1. Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Dec 13, 2012
    100
    Directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz and winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this is the second superb Israeli documentary (after "The Gatekeepers") to come to town in less than a month and deal fearlessly with an aspect of that country's legal and political system.
  2. Reviewed by: Rachel Saltz
    Nov 14, 2012
    80
    By keeping its focus admirably tight, the sober and sobering Israeli documentary The Law in These Parts presents a devastating case against the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
  3. Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    Nov 16, 2012
    80
    Ra'anan Alexandroricz's documentary uses a simple framework - a starkly photographed series of interviews with nine retired judges and lawyers instrumental in administering the often arbitrary laws - to deliver a provocative examination of the nature of justice.
  4. Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    Nov 13, 2012
    60
    Dialectical and precise to the point of exhaustion, The Law in These Parts applies a cold anger to one of the geopolitical world's most passionate discords.

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