Film review

Recreating the East Village of decades ago will be fun for adult viewers, but not for the vast majority of children, so ignore how appealing this movie looks on the poster and don’t bring your kids.

The movie uses a newsreel format to give the story historical context and to lay out the many different factions who fought each other during the pre-state years.

Since we are now experiencing a truly difficult year, it’s nice to have a movie like this to help us get through it.

Here are my 10 best international films this year (with one exception, these all played in movie theaters in Israel), followed by the 10 best Israeli movies. 

The movie reinvents no wheels. But it sure knows how to film ’em.

Netflix’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire,” attempts to create a ready-made Star Wars-like series with its own internal mythology and iconography.

A film review of 'Maestro, which opened in theaters in Israel on Thursday and is coming to Netflix on December 20.

A film review of Martin Scorsese’s 'Killers of the Flower Moon', which just opened in theaters around Israel.

Astolfo is such an appealing character that there isn’t a huge amount of suspense as to how all this will end, but is enjoyable to watch it play out.

While the two leads don’t have much chemistry together, perhaps this is part of the director’s design. They do, however, have a warm rapport.