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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 19 Jun 2013

Burshtein has achieved a gripping film without victims or villains, an ambiguous tragedy drawing on universal themes of love and loss, self-sacrifice…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Jun 2013

The film is undeniably a celebration of community, but on Shira, one gets the disturbing whiff of Stockholm Syndrome…

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By Christopher Llewellyn R (115) on 18 Jun 2013

Interesting, though not compelling or especially well made…

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By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

Director Rama Burshtein's debut is nothing less than astonishing…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 13 Jun 2013

Burshtein keeps the camera tight on the faces of her actors in a way that succeeds at making visible the invisible heat between the characters…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 13 Jun 2013

There's a clotted and cramped feeling to Fill the Void that's downright creepy…

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By Tal Z (8) on 13 Jun 2013

Beautiful movie: I was pulled in from beginning to end. It was about an ultra-Orthodox family, directed by an orthodox woman…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Jun 2013

A sympathetic, layered portrayal, rich with detail, that earns its more complex and resonant conclusion…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Jun 2013

None of the religious rituals feels particularly spiritual, and even the nominally happy ending fails to alleviate the oppressive tone…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 12 Jun 2013

I suspect Burshtein achieved what she set out to do with Fill the Void, but I found it repetitive and frustrating…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 12 Jun 2013

I suspect Burshtein achieved what she set out to do with Fill the Void, but I found it repetitive and frustrating…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Jun 2013

Will they or won't they…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 07 Jun 2013

An exquisite, poetic film that is full of both the joy of life, even in grief, and in the fact that life inevitably goes on…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for Hearst Newspapers (14) on 06 Jun 2013

Fill the Void, a compelling and skillfully made domestic drama, is a rarity, a film that's both set within, and emerges from, a devoutly religious…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 May 2013

To fill the void, means to simultaneously gain and lose. For Shira, she is keeping her family together at the cost of her own ambitions…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 May 2013

Implicit in this film is a simple truth: The sheer force of artistry has the power to convert outsiders into insiders…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 27 May 2013

Take it on its own terms, as a compelling emotional drama about an impossible situation…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2013

Burshtein has devoted most of the last 20 years teaching and making film in that world, but here makes her international feature debut with…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 May 2013

A lesser filmmaker would have condescended to this world, but Rama Burshtein, an Orthodox woman herself, treats it with abiding respect…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 May 2013

A transfixing, emotionally complex Israeli drama…

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