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  • Big Bad Wolves (2013)
    Review preview for Big Bad Wolves

    Definitely one of this year’s most accomplished thrillers.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    Two vigilantes kidnap a suspected child-killer.
  • Entebbe (2018)
    Review preview for Entebbe

    The story expands beyond the conventions of a Boys Own adventure

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Dramatisation of the rescue attempt after the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris.
  • Footnote (2011)
    Review preview for Footnote

    The initially breezy tone of the comedy gives way to a depiction of calculated cruelty monstrously vicious enough almost to qualify as horror, human enough to count as tragedy and nuanced enough to face viewers with a most unusual kind of dilemma, part in

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Tale of father-son rivalries within the Israeli academic establishment.
  • Foxtrot (2017)
    Review preview for Foxtrot

    Samuel Maoz steps into the rhythm of the foxtrot to give structure to the three separate chapters of his intense, reverberating film.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A family's world is rocked when they are told about the death of their son.
  • Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer (2016)
    Review preview for Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer

    Cedar aims for emotional truth through visceral recognition and he succeeds in feeding our desire to understand what makes humans do the things we do.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A fixer falls in with a rising Israeli politician and is soon trying to bluff his way into the big time.
  • Rabies (2010)
    Review preview for Rabies

    The script is knowing, loving and amusingly toys with the genre.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    As a psycho killer lurks in the woods, a group of nervous people might represent a bigger threat to each other.
  • Walk On Water (2004)
    Review preview for Walk On Water

    Fox succeeds in showing us much of the best and worst of modern Israel.

    Mimmo · 4 out of 5
    An unlikely friendship between a gay German tourist and a homophobic Israeli assassin.

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