Foxtrot

A visually stunning, stylistically transcendental and politically audacious indictment of the absurd hostilities and needless wars.

[Writer-director Samuel] Moaz is a daring, unpredictable storyteller, and his eccentric plot construction, which also takes into account the son's last days, turns an intimate emotional drama into a larger statement about fate and justice.

A film full of mystery and switchbacks is resolved in resounding style.

The film's tastefully constricted aesthetic is enjoyably at odds with its unruly, philosophical themes; the slipperiness of a dual identity, the fragility of war and the relentless manner in which grief can leak into a home's every crevice.

Hellerian surrealism. Slapstick comedy. There are many tones and textures set against two backdrops in Samuel Maoz's long-awaited follow-up to Lebanon.

Maoz definitely knows how to knock a film together, so fingers crossed that the window between this and his next one is a lot more narrow.

Its way of condemning the absurdity of war in three episodes captivates me when I least expect it. [Full review in Spanish]

...a tricky narrative that is occasionally over-hyperbolic...

Maoz never lets us forget about the bigger picture.

Foxtrot benefits from a talented supporting cast.