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Dabis is certainly to be praised for her lightness of touch, filling many of her scenes with a humour often lacking from films addressing issues of migration.

It is Blade Runner.

One rarely sees a film this well crafted.

Throw away The Bible and let's look at this thing afresh

What follows is not a simple coming-out narrative and not a whodunit either, but an internal struggle constantly externalised through ritual and space.

The idea that a family would face the war crime equivalent of lions, tigers and bears in the space of a few hours barges through the boundaries of belief.

Riklis has made a wise choice in turning real life political drama into a simple human interest story.

I suspect even Jarmusch’s most ardent fans will find longeurs.

Released to coincide with seasonal spending sprees, it will help to float modern day Herods' coffers.

His [Abu-Assad's] controversial decision to place melodrama before morality, while allowing Paradise Now to transcend its hefty (and painfully current) ethical baggage, also allows us to empathise with its conflicted protagonist.

Pomegranates And Myrrh is concerned with living within the Palestinian diaspora, and living within a situation you have no power to change.

Jacir's film might look back to the 1930s but it's a film that is in conversation with the present-day.

Visually arresting and emotionally engaging.