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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 12 Aug 2017

Sensitive and sympathetic character study, offering gentle insight into a self-segregated community…

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By Elazar Fine (28) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 11 Aug 2017

Menashe is a movie that by all rights should not exist…

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By Eli Fine (27) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 11 Aug 2017

Menashe is a movie that by all rights should not exist…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 10 Aug 2017

The subtle on-screen chemistry between father and son gives this sweet and poignant drama a solid emotional base…

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By Brad Wheeler (426) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 10 Aug 2017

The news behind the understated drama Menashe is that it’s a rare thing, a film performed in Yiddish, covertly shot in Brooklyn’s guarded…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Aug 2017

The result is an act of partial, tenderly observed guerrilla filmmaking…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Aug 2017

By focusing on the details of his characters’ lives, Weinstein finds common ground on both sides of the religious divide…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 09 Aug 2017

It provides plenty of observations of the man's flaws, while offering no judgment of those flaws…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 09 Aug 2017

Menashe shows that even though a father may eat, pray, and love differently, his bond with his son is something anyone can comprehend…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original Cin (1,156) on 09 Aug 2017

Despite being set in an almost impenetrably closed society, Menashe is a touching story with the universal theme of being unable to fit in…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Aug 2017

This is Weinstein's first dramatic feature; he's been a documentarian, and that comes through in his ability to show Menashe in the context…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Aug 2017

The formulaic narrative is made unpredictable by the authentic surroundings and the potential complications of religion. But it's still formulaic…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 08 Aug 2017

The script seems overly determined to knock its hero down, when the people around him could stand to do some growing up…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 Aug 2017

First time feature film director Joshua Z. Weinstein uses his documentary skills to put us in the midst of Menashe's life…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 02 Aug 2017

The result is a sharp, moving dissection of personal identity and self-agency…

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By Andy Crump (279) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 02 Aug 2017

Menashe is all about capturing the painful dynamic of feeling completely alienated, even when you're in a room surrounded by people just like you…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 01 Aug 2017

At times sweet, but never patronizing, Menashe examines a world that might seem foreign or oppressive without ever turning its inhabitants…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 31 Jul 2017

Menashe Lustig creates an endearing character, hapless and disheveled, barely scraping by, whose every attempt to do the right thing seems…

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By Dominick Mayer (133) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 28 Jul 2017

Menashe may be a film of understated storytelling and plot, but its pleasures lie primarily in the wonderfully observational approach that…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 27 Jul 2017

Sympathy is generated...but not sustained drama...Sensitive portrayal [but] such a respectfully realistic but modest story as Menashe can leave…

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