Odessa... Odessa!

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A lyrical poem to the lost places in our past and our heritage.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

This leisurely, transfixing movie is much more interested in nostalgic atmosphere than "educational" facts.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Odessa ... Odessa! could use a little more narrative substance to augment its haunting imagery but is ultimately a memorable portrait of cultural dislocation.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

A modernist travelogue, at once impressionistic and precise.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

The Brighton Beach crowds come off more like tourists, and the Odessans in Israel can't seem to decide which is their real homeland. And it's all very confusing.

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Too pretty to dismiss, but too dull to recommend.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Hauntingly beautiful documentary.

New York Post by Russell Scott Smith

Sometimes beautiful to look at but ultimately too poetic for its own good.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

As it observes these people, most of them well over 60, it conjures a melancholy definition of exile as a haunted state of mind.