70
A cumulatively devastating and visceral insight into the horrors of war.
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60
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.
90
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.
80
At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.
88
A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.
80
Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat.
90
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.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Intense, autobiographically based drama.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
At more than two hours, Kippur is something of an ordeal.