Critic Reviews
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
An alternately angry and sad portrait, passionate in its presentation and moving in its portrayal of individuals who sacrifice their love for the tenets of their religion.
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| 80 |
TV Guide
The acting is uniformly superb, as is the rich, somber cinematography.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Raises fascinating question within a compelling narrative framework, and is also intriguing for the glimpse it provides into the inner workings of Orthodox Judaism.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Slowly unfolding but liberating film, which is also a rare look inside a circumscribed community.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
A powerful indictment of a religious mind set and is sure to spark plenty of post-screening discussion.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
A wonderfully understated work offering insights to a world where no emotion is simple.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
A poetic and somber film that underscores the bum deal women usually get in any restrictive society.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A very angry film.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
One of Gitaï's greatest assets in Kadosh is such stillness, which leaves facile outsiders' judgment out of the frame and thereby deepens our immersion in the narrative.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
This unusually classical story from experimental Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai flows along, suffused in a quiet beauty flecked with sober foreboding.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Gitai has created a film that is as beautiful as it is all but unbearable to watch.
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| 70 |
Film.com
It is unusually but effectively organized as an almost unbroken chain of intimacies between the small and large players in this story.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
If it happens to lose you as you wander through this strange land, at least it does so to the accompaniment of captivating visuals and music.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
It moves slowly, but you suspect that is the way of life in Mea Shearim, the closed quarters of a group that triggered Gitai's respect and our curiosity.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Gitai, a veteran documentary director, refuses to find an easy resolution to the story, and that will frustrate as many people as it pleases.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
It's hard to tell whether these characters are meant to seem as staunchly symbolic as they do when they deliver some of the back-story-heavy dialogue.
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