Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

More than anything, this is an intelligent audience picture, a solid and engrossing piece of old-school filmmaking, both humane and character driven, in which the various protagonists learn something - not too much and not too easily - about the nature of their lives.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

An enjoyable mix of tragedy and comedy.

Boxoffice Magazine by Pam Grady

With the stranger in a strange land motif, the movie plays a little bit like the 2007 Israeli dramedy "The Band's Visit" and Liev Shreiber's "Everything Is Illuminated" rolled into one.

Village Voice by Mark Holcomb

Tender irony and dark humor abound in Israeli director Eran Riklis's latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning compassion.

Time Out by David Fear

It's undeniably humanistic; resourceful and well managed, however, are a different story.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Joe Williams

Because we don't know or care much about the characters, this Israeli film never fulfills its potential as either an absurdist comedy or a humane drama.

San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego

It serves up a broad humanistic lesson with absurdism and black comedy more sad than barbed.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

A disappointingly shallow story in which only the dead are named, and the living are reduced to stereotypes.