Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Though Kippur seems a creature radically different -- more nakedly autobiographical, more naturalistic, more forgiving -- from Gitai's highly conceptual and stylized body of work, there are clear thematic continuities.

Film.com by David D'Arcy

Don't miss it.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Intense, autobiographically based drama.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat.

Mr. Showbiz by Michael Atkinson

Formally astute, visually arresting, and fearlessly horrifying.

Miami Herald

Shot mostly with a hand-held camera and in the gray hues you expect from the gruesome landscape, Kippur is highly sophisticated in its action scenes.

Miami Herald by Marta Barber

Shot mostly with a hand-held camera and in the gray hues you expect from the gruesome landscape, Kippur is highly sophisticated in its action scenes.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Both a blood-churning war movie and a mind-stirring antiwar movie, focusing not on guts and glory but on the stark realities of real battlefield experience.

Variety

A cumulatively devastating and visceral insight into the horrors of war.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

At more than two hours, Kippur is something of an ordeal.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.