Movie Reviews

Hila, which is very watchable in spite of its occasional and distracting descents into pretension, is certainly one of Michal Bat-Adam’s best movies. 

Usually, whether I like a movie or not, I can understand why the director wanted to make it, but here the reasoning eluded me.

Treasure is a very particular story that will evoke universal emotions in audiences.

As I watched the movie, my loyalties kept shifting among the characters, and I wasn’t always sure where it was going – one of the highest compliments I can give any movie.

People forget that Eichmann spent about two years in Israel, as investigators interrogated him before the trial, during his trial, and in the period of appeals that followed the trial.

The movie tells the story of a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo, one of the cleanest cities in the world.

Miyazaki’s unique work is imaginative and filled with beautiful imagery, but his stories also have great emotional depth, usually from the point of view of children.

It’s a typically irreverent joke in a movie that is a mixture of a rom-com and a more serious look at how Israelis deal with prejudice and the past, which is now playing in theaters.

Irena’s Vow gives us a look into the life of the kind of person we all hope we would be if we found ourselves tested like this.

Were the narrator who tells the story in the framing device anyone other than the incomparable Helen Mirren, White Bird wouldn’t have worked nearly as well as it does.