70
Offers an occasionally fascinating look at the complex social, religious and political dynamics that help define the sacred city of Jerusalem.
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70
A former yeshiva student himself, Gorlin turns this tale of political intrigue and the search for divinity into an act of liberation -- if not outright defiance.
75
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Masterly coming-of-age drama.
70
The film, like the beleaguered country it depicts, has a raw, neurotic, brawling yet tender vitality.
70
This broadly acted first feature is exceedingly direct, appropriately sordid, and at times, almost delicate.
70
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
The story's resolution isn't very satisfying, but I considered most of this movie time well spent.
60
The film is really a timely critique of the ongoing insanity that has engulfed Israeli life.
80
One of its great strengths lies in its surprising universality.
30
Small, amateurish Israeli feature.
50
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A barbed reflection on the great divide between secular and ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israeli culture. But its digressive screenplay lacks focus and momentum and is too oblique to connect many of the dots between its characters and their behavior.