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The Green Prince

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Germany, United Kingdom, Israel · 2014
Rated PG-13 · 1h 39m
Director Nadav Schirman
Starring Mosab Hassan Yousef, Gonen Ben Yitzhak, Sheikh Hassan Yousef
Genre Documentary, Thriller

This real-life thriller tells the story of one of Israel’s prized intelligence sources, recruited to spy on his own people for more than a decade. Focusing on the complex relationship with his handler, The Green Prince is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, and unthinkable choices, along with a friendship that defies all boundaries.

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New York Daily News by

More than just a morality tale, The Green Prince is a thrill-a-minute spy caper too strange to be real, though it is.

75

The A.V. Club by Benjamin Mercer

Yet even if the individuals and their motives themselves don’t always come into full focus, The Green Prince is an absorbing psychological study of shifting allegiances.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

Though the political background is fascinating, what finally resonates is that Schirman manages to humanize both Yousef and his Israeli handler, Gonen Ben Yitzhak, who would become an unlikely friend and ally.

50

Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

The proceedings have such a rigidly determined structure, amplified by chapter titles, that the power and conviction in their recountings deteriorate into a placid series of back-and-forths.

60

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

The Israel-Palestine conflict is reduced to a crystalline, though still complicated, essence in Nadav Schirman’s alternately tedious and engrossing documentary.

75

New York Post by Kyle Smith

Yousef’s story, which he retells in the documentary The Green Prince, is one of unimaginable courage and moral awakening.

50

The Dissolve by Mike D'Angelo

The Green Prince relates gripping events in a doggedly subdued manner, via direct-to-camera interviews and dramatic re-creations.

50

Variety by Rob Nelson

An extraordinarily engrossing tale becomes an extremely uncinematic experience in the hands of Israeli documentarian Nadav Schirman.

80

The Guardian by Xan Brooks

Schirman's film (produced by the team behind Man on Wire and Searching For Sugarman) is as gripping as any high-concept Hollywood thriller and as psychologically knotty as Greek tragedy.

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