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So lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
More than the sum of its parts.
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These three films form a remarkably cohesive whole, both visually and thematically, through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people.
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It is haunting in its literal and symbolic meanings, which is the powerful, lingering effect of Yellow Asphalt.
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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Dryly cynical; the scenarios pit plump, amoral, industrialized Jews against draconian, wife-beating, tribal Arabs.
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Though it's tempting to praise Verete for having the courage to show the worst of both worlds, only a propagandist could get away with being so reductive; an artist should be held to a higher standard.