Braids blunt melodramatic storytelling with a softer, more searching look at conflicted identity, both cultural and sexual. If the film isn’t always narratively credible, it’s sincerely felt to the last.
Read full articleAmerica unfolds over several years, but it feels as if you've known its main characters for much longer. Moshonov, who skillfully oscillates between tenderness, restraint and imploding rage, is the MVP her...
Read full articleA delicate, sensitive, and anguished melodrama where there are no heroes or villains, just flawed people searching for intimacy and fumbling their way through life's tribulations. Director Ofir Raul Graizer is the real deal.
Read full articleIsraeli writer/director Graizer creates a lush, tragic romantic triangle. Appealing characters’ colorful environs reflect their presents and their pasts that determine their fates. Sensitive layers keep the melodrama from overwhelming the affecting story
Read full articlePraised by all of the reviews out so far, America might teach you more about floral arrangements than Judaism, but with its superb cinematography (Omri Aloni), fine acting, and leisurely pace, you’ll have more than enough time to ponder the film’s title.
Read full articleIt’s not a movie that is easy to categorize and just when you think you have figured out where it’s going, Graizer steers his characters in a different direction.
Read full articleGrazier’s film is a thoughtful, meditative character study that yields as many insights as it does emotions.
Read full articleLuxuriantly sensual, Ofir Raul Graizer’s America boldly embraces melodrama in a film marked by strong, nuanced, performances.
Read full article This emotionally satisfying film is something of an untraditional love triangle
Read full articleWhile heart-tugging sentiment is not entirely shunned... it is handled with sufficient tact and sensitivity to heighten rather than cheapen the story’s overall impact.
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