Foxtrot
By Nora Lee Mandel February 28, 2018
The domestic front intersects with a military checkpoint in the theater of the absurd via Israel.
The domestic front intersects with a military checkpoint in the theater of the absurd via Israel.
All director Amos Gitai is saying is, give peace a chance.
Israeli and Palestinian youth explore the possibility of finding common ground among the chaos.
A bride-to-be tells a catering hall manager to keep the name of the groom on the invitations blank; she’s sure to find her true soul mate, sooner rather than later.
Balancing Bedouin tradition and modern life is a rocky path for women.
There is a quiet eloquence to director Yuval Delshad’s debut film about the burgeoning conflict between a father and his teenage son.
The prime reason to see this artsy film is the beautiful black-and-white, weird, and mystical imagery of cinematographer Shai Goldman.
Depicting a mental disability on film is always tricky, but actress Moran Rosenblatt does a fine job balancing her character’s inherent sweetness with an underlying sense of frustration.
The found-footage horror film is the ugly stepchild in a family of ugly stepchildren. If slasher films do not get respect, found-footage movies, save for one or two, tend to elicit groans and rolling eyes. They are super cheap to make, the cinematography and sound are generally awful, and the acting worse because, for the […]