Movie Reviews
‘Hamnet’ is Oscar-bait about Shakespeare's free-spirited wife - review
Hamnet, which just opened in theaters around Israel, is a movie about William Shakespeare’s family that really wants to be about something else.
'Jerusalem ’67' tells the human stories of the Six Day War
The best of 2025 in Israeli and international cinema
Marty Supreme turns table tennis obsession into frantic cinema
'The Good Boss': A story of bad business - review
If you feel you can still laugh about the way the system grinds down employees then you won’t feel too bad watching The Good Boss.
'Beautiful Minds': An unlikely duo celebrating their power - review
Usually, I either like or dislike a movie, but with Beautiful Minds, I kept going back and forth, finding it alternately charming and cloying.
‘Metronom’: Rebellious youth in Romania’s troubled times - review
It’s an ambitious movie, told mainly through two long scenes, the party and investigation, and it won Alexandru Belc the directing prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
'Valeria is Getting Married': Story of a mail-order Ukrainian bride - review
The title of the film really ought to be Is Valeria Getting Married? because Christina knows that this kind of mail-order partnership is not a done deal.
‘Rosa’s Wedding’: A charming low-key comedy-drama - review
While the movie is often predictable, it is nevertheless enjoyable, and belongs squarely in the ever-growing genre of movies about middle-aged women making a major life transformation.
'More than I Deserve' tells a very Israeli story - review
"More Than I Deserve" tells an intersecting story of two communities in Israel, new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and the ultra-Orthodox
A kid, his grandfather and 1980s New York
James Gray’s Armageddon Time will be like taking a journey in a time machine that will transport you back to New York in the 1980s.
The Man in the Basement: A thriller on Holocaust denial trolls - review
The Man in the Basement opens on January 27 in New York to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and will soon be shown around the US (and eventually, one would hope, in Israel)
In ‘My Neighbor Adolf,’ the guy next door is Hitler - review
That’s the somewhat bizarre premise of the engaging black comedy My Neighbor Adolf, directed by Leon Prudovsky and co-written by Dmitry Malinsky.
The challenging path to Ofir Raul Graizer’s ‘America’ - review
The miracle is that the movie came together, in spite of the fact that they were set to begin filming during the pandemic.