Review of Kippur (2000) by Nicolas C — 17 Apr 2008

Le meilleur film de guerre que j'ai jamais vu.

This review of Kippur (2000) was written by Nicolas C on 17 Apr 2008.

Kippur has generally received positive reviews.

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By Ed Scheid (39) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 04 Jun 2002

Gitai's forceful direction realistically captures the chaos, dislocation and agony that the helicopter team witness and experience…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 07 Feb 2001

The relentless attention to the sheer awfulness of war, which is the film's great strength, is also something of a shortcoming…

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By Özkan T (178) on 02 Jun 2007

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By Marta Barber (91) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 11 Apr 2004

Both a blood-churning war movie and a mind-stirring antiwar movie, focusing not on guts and glory but on the stark realities of real battlefield…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 18 Jun 2010

Though Kippur seems a creature radically different -- more nakedly autobiographical, more naturalistic, more forgiving -- from Gitai's highly…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 07 Oct 2016

Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat…

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By Mjs M (208) on 12 May 2008

An Israeli film about the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Largely based on director Amos Gitai…

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By Ayal W (1) on 21 Mar 2008

The movie is a microcosmic look of battle aftermath that took place in the Yom Kippur War between Israel and the dual forces of Syria and Egypt…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Aug 2017

A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective…

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By Jens T (504) on 11 Sep 2011

All those Tanks & Guns & Helicopters but no action !!!! What a shame. = (…

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