75
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The drama makes up in intellectual weight what it sometimes lacks in psychological interest and cinematic realism.
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40
A largely dull history lesson…stripped of any backgrounding, peopled with archetypes rather than fully-drawn characters, and features self-consciously arty direction that gets in the way of story-telling.
50
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Has the stilted, slightly surreal feel of a stage piece. Sometimes it works, but too often it doesn't.
30
Mesmerizingly bad filmmaking.
80
Gitai uses fictionalized characters to dramatize historical reality, and while minimalist in its presentation, the film becomes nearly operatic in its intensity.
10
Kedma makes for a clumsy, lugubrious history lesson.
30
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
But for all its provocation, Kedma is an often dull, incoherent film, and its characters remain frustratingly sketchy