62
Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMore than anything, this is an intelligent audience picture, a solid and engrossing piece of old-school filmmaking, both humane and character driven, in which the various protagonists learn something - not too much and not too easily - about the nature of their lives.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoAn enjoyable mix of tragedy and comedy.
- 70Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombTender irony and dark humor abound in Israeli director Eran Riklis's latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning compassion.
- 60Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearIt's undeniably humanistic; resourceful and well managed, however, are a different story.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA disappointingly shallow story in which only the dead are named, and the living are reduced to stereotypes.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoIt serves up a broad humanistic lesson with absurdism and black comedy more sad than barbed.
- 50St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsBecause we don't know or care much about the characters, this Israeli film never fulfills its potential as either an absurdist comedy or a humane drama.