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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 11 Mar 2012

Joseph Cedar's Footnote is easily one of the most exciting and creatively executed films about Jewish academics poring over the Torah ever…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 10 Mar 2012

Footnote has two of the best performances I've seen in world cinema over the past year: One from Shlomo Bar Aba (apparently best known in Israel…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 09 Mar 2012

The modern Jewish parable Footnote imbues a classic moral dilemma with a fraught, fascinating twist…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 08 Mar 2012

Footnote does function as a character study, an exceptionally rich one…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 08 Mar 2012

The movie is not a story but a text, and Cedar is its playfully intrusive interpreter…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 08 Mar 2012

Cedar's off-handed, observational humor is so beautifully played by the casually brilliant cast…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 Mar 2012

The love, jealousy, and stubborn pride of the relationship between Ashkenazi and Bar-Aba is the heart of the film, and that makes the deliberately…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 07 Mar 2012

What Cedar captures here is the way a father and son can be bound so tightly they almost choke the air out of one another…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 06 Mar 2012

Cedar's idiosyncratically brilliant script also has a moral question at its heart: Is lying to spare someone's feelings ever justified…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Mar 2012

Something between a comedy of everyday absurdity and a family tragedy pushed into the realm of the hyper-real, Footnote uses its characters…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 11 Jan 2012

Joseph Cedar's Footnote is a wry, wise little film that revels in the cataclysmic import of a life's most ostensibly trivial details…

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By Nick Roddick (15) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 24 Oct 2011

Shows just what you can do with a carefully constructed plot and lovingly drawn characters - even if, in the end, neither of them is particularly…

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By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 08 Sep 2011

With kinetic visuals, a stabbing score derivative of Hitchcock composer Bernard Herrmann, and some devastating twists, Footnote plumbs the…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 05 Sep 2011

The most thrilling movie you are ever likely to see about dueling father-son Talmudic scholars…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Aug 2011

Highlight of Israeli cinema and winner of major award at Cannes Fest, Footonote is an intelligent and complex film that's effective as a ferocious…

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