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By Stephen Silver (684) for Splice Today (140) on 05 Apr 2018

A meditation on war, duty, family, PTSD, and Israeli identity, which is much more interested in telling a compelling character story than scoring…

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By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Apr 2018

The best thing to be said of this well-intentioned film is that it doesn't resort to lecturing…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 04 Apr 2018

In this portrait of a family, a society and a nation trapped in cycles of unwinnable conflict, Maoz has made a film both painfully poignant…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Apr 2018

Foxtrot is far too interior to be called flashy, but there’s something striking in director Samuel Maoz’s visual confidence, the way he…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 03 Apr 2018

A despairing work that's not quite as gripping as its predecessor, Foxtrot still manages to make a powerful statement about the unintended…

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By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 03 Apr 2018

With caustic wit and fantastic performances for all involved, the film is destined to be an anti-war classic…

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By Luke Hicks (31) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 02 Apr 2018

Maoz does an impeccable job of fashioning a non-linear narrative that reveals just enough to keep us guessing, but not enough to ever feel…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 30 Mar 2018

And the performances! Watch the world crumble and emotions ripple and rumble across Ashkenazi's features. To live is to suffer…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 28 Mar 2018

Particularly impressive is Ashkenazi (“7 Days in Entebbe”), who brings to Michael a soulful but volatile insecurity…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 27 Mar 2018

Writer-director Maoz is best known for his 2009 film “Lebanon,” based partly on his own experiences as a tank gunner during the 1982 Lebanon…

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By Steve Murray (153) for ArtsATL (57) on 26 Mar 2018

It's a rigorous, fascinating deep dive into the immediate, numbed aftermath of sudden loss, injected with very dry comedy as the military reps…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 23 Mar 2018

Somehow, a casually traveling camel or soldiers breaking out and doing the foxtrot dance are just memorable moments instead of defining moments…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Mar 2018

This is the second feature from Maoz; his first, the superb “Lebanon” (2009), is one of the essential war pictures of the young century…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Mar 2018

The movie has metaphors to burn, and those looking for provocative commentary will surely find it…

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By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 22 Mar 2018

The results are stunning. Foxtrot takes us from unfathomable mourning to soul-numbing tedium and back again…

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By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 22 Mar 2018

Foxtrot plays like a chamber drama with an absurd penchant for tragedy…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 22 Mar 2018

The last third is still well-acted and -written, with interesting visual echoes throughout…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Mar 2018

A complex, challenging film that uses a singular tragedy to illuminate the dark implications of Israeli policy in the occupied territories,…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Ex-Press.com (333) on 22 Mar 2018

So much of Foxtrot feels like a dangling thread - a cruel jest of fate without meaning…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 16 Mar 2018

Foxtrot resembles a dream, and one that carries you along with it…

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