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83At times too movieish, yet Ashkenazi creates a memorable figure: a spy who operates - admirably - out of the most unyielding nationalist conviction, only to learn that he needs to let some of that conviction go.
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80The uniformly excellent performances feel real and familiar.
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80Its suggestion that Israel, of all nations, should know better than to persecute minorities within and across its borders, give the film a thrilling universal appeal.
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80It denotes a minor movie miracle: how with intelligence, imagination and craft a small film can work in really large ways.
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80Fox keeps the suspense story at a low boil throughout, allowing the politics to emerge as the characters deepen.
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75Compassionate and marvelously acted, although a subplot about the gay grandson slows the story down for a while.
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75Hits a bulls-eye.
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75There’s something happening here and it isn’t exactly clear. What is clear is that Eytan Fox may yet make a great film for the 21st century.
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75Remains gripping until the final 15 minutes, when a series of sudden, unjustified plot twists leave us shaking our heads.
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70Explores a wealth of issues and conflicting ideologies.
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70The new Israeli film Walk on Water is complex and paradoxical, at times frustrating but always involving. Something like the country that produced it.
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70Though it is marred by an implausible climax and a cloying conclusion, this movie's quiet intelligence sneaks up on you, marking the director as a talent to watch.
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70Fox's film seems to say that the kind of saintly purity that would enable one to walk on water -- or to kill with impunity and without repercussions -- doesn't exist.
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70All political thrillers, good or less good, have moral implications...Walk on Water, one of the better ones, has grave moral implications and does not ignore them or merely utilize them.
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67Though its characters aren't terribly complex, and its plot holds few surprises, the screenplay (in English, German, and Hebrew) amounts to a worthy treatise on the need to forgo revenge.
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Despite the film's pat plot turns and instructional tone, there are moments of charm, thanks to the fetching, committed cast.
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63An unexpected ode to peace.
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63The film nearly drowns in earnest morality.
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63The Israeli film works best in isolated spots early on as a series of intriguing character studies. Upon reaching to become a lesson to the world, however, Walk on Water goes off the deep end.
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63Unfortunately for Fox, the softer his movie gets, the more Ashkenazi and Berger grow to resemble Ben Stiller and Ashton Kutcher in some unreleased, homo-erotic comic romance.
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60Well-meaning but implausible story.
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60Fox falters a bit with the narrative, but offers a fascinating treatment of the issues facing the descendents of Jewish victims and their German persecutors, as well as one of the most chilling birthday parties ever filmed.
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60When it unexpectedly shifts back into its initial thriller mode, Walk On Water loses in human drama what it gains in tidiness, revealing itself as a film that carries more weight in its light scenes than its heavy moments can sustain.
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58Despite its flaws, Walk on Water is a sometimes engaging story of emotional opposites who become mystifyingly attracted to each other.
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50Fox can't decide if Walk on Water is a terrorist thriller or a gay buddy story, and neither can the viewer.
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50The complex questions Walk on Water raises receive only confused answers.
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50Attempts the miraculous but achieves the adequate.
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40Walk on Water makes you wonder what the Mossad is teaching its field agents these days.
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