Kedma

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

The drama makes up in intellectual weight what it sometimes lacks in psychological interest and cinematic realism.

Variety by Derek Elley

A largely dull history lesson…stripped of any backgrounding, peopled with archetypes rather than fully-drawn characters, and features self-consciously arty direction that gets in the way of story-telling.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Has the stilted, slightly surreal feel of a stage piece. Sometimes it works, but too often it doesn't.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Mesmerizingly bad filmmaking.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Gitai uses fictionalized characters to dramatize historical reality, and while minimalist in its presentation, the film becomes nearly operatic in its intensity.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Kedma makes for a clumsy, lugubrious history lesson.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

But for all its provocation, Kedma is an often dull, incoherent film, and its characters remain frustratingly sketchy