Sublet

The casting was absolutley perfect. Niv Nissim was incredible.

This movie caught me by surprise. I had not heard of this movie before and decided to watch it based on the Critic's Reviews. It's charming, sweet and very heartfelt. Great acting too!

I tought it was a movie about a desperate Sugar Daddy trying too hard, it was, but also it ended nicely . It passed the time.

Sublet is an endearing boy meets boy story that shows how two very different people react to one another. I think it captured the characters' emotions well. But it's situational, it lacks dramatic construction.

A revolting piece of dreck. This movie glorifies the shallow sub-culture of the gay community featuring promiscuity and drugs. The main character is a horror; a person of any substance would find him revolting and RUN the other way. If this is your life my dear fellow homos, there's a far better way to live than this. Rise up! The writer self-disclosed in the movie that he would rather I (his audience) be made to vomit by his movie than feel nothing. Well, mission accomplished. Bleeeeeeeeeeech!

Not sure why comedy was in the genre 1.9. The acting wasn’t even bad, it just felt so mundane

This is a low-key movie about a short-term relationship between two gay men. One is a married straight-laced New Yorker in his 50s recovering from a personal loss. The other is a young man in his 20s who wants and has the freedom to pursue his movie-making career, sex, and leisure pursuits at his whim. The brief interaction between both men changes them both. I liked the movie because it gave me a chance to see hip, gay Tel Aviv as well as the interactions between the two main characters. It's not a great movie, but it is entertaining to stream at home.

I really enjoyed this movie and how light and easy to watch it was. I can identify a lot with one of the characters and seeing how things unfolded seemed like watching myself in some life situations. I think both actors have a lot of chemistry and I really enjoyed their interactions. It's a great movie that will definitely invite for a reflection on youth and old age while blending with the cultural contrast between the two characters. I was hoping the trip to Tel Aviv would've lasted a couple more days so that I would've learned a bit more about how they navigate their relationship but I guess the movie ended on a perfect note :)

Sublet gently takes you into a climatic relationship and ultimate friendship. Sit back and let it slowly sweep you away.

What a shame it is when a film successfully manages to feature fine performances, deliver insightful conversations and evoke heartfelt emotions but still never quite reaches its potential. So it is in this Israeli comedy-drama about an aging gay travel writer from New York who sublets an apartment from a handsome young bisexual film student while on assignment to write a piece aimed at taking the pulse of life in Tel Aviv. Director Eytan Fox's intergenerational story of friendship, romance, reflecting on the past and the search for the next step in life frequently captivates but primarily as a collection of "moments" that don't tie together particularly well. In an attempt to pack too much material and too many themes into the film's scant 89-minute runtime, "Sublet" often feels seriously underdeveloped and often rushed to get everything in under the wire. The writing is generally crisp (save for one woefully pathetic scene in the closing sequence), and the lead performances by John Benjamin Hickey and Niv Nissim are heartfelt and lively, but they're not enough to elevate this offering to what it could be. Instead of a full-fledged, well-crafted release we're left with the travelogue version of the story, sadly shortchanging viewers on what might have been a much more engaging tale.