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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 27 Jul 2017

Small, naturalistic moments like a scene of father and son scrambling to quickly eat breakfast and leave the apartment collectively give the…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 27 Jul 2017

The plot is a touch obvious, but Menashe still plays like a more culturally specific Kramer vs…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 27 Jul 2017

Bittersweet yet charming, it's both intimate and relatable for parents everywhere…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 27 Jul 2017

Menashe offers an affectingly intimate glance into a world largely unknown to those outside of it, one where faith is omnipresent over every…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 27 Jul 2017

This is not a melodramatic movie - there's not so much as a fistfight, and the ending will be too quiet for some - yet at times its sadness…

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By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 Jul 2017

Here is a film dedicated to recognizing our most common obstacles, its quiet storytelling largely accompanied by those feelings at the bottom…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Jul 2017

The film (shot mostly in Yiddish) has an unpolished intimacy, peeling back the surface exoticism of a cloistered faith to reveal the poignantly…

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By Ken Jaworowski (128) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Jul 2017

For sure, this funny and tender film prompts cheerful smiles, but sometimes they turn melancholy…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for New York Observer (1,400) on 26 Jul 2017

The film ends up getting stuck in a no man’s land between fiction and documentary, never quite coming together as a complete narrative…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 26 Jul 2017

Menashe is full of lovely grace notes in which nothing much happens, but which deepen our understanding of this self-segregated corner of the world…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jul 2017

As a slice of ultra-orthodox life, Menashe offers an unusual — and unusually sympathetic — look inside a world that is often hidden from view…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jul 2017

Menashe Lustig brings warmth and a lumpen charisma to Menashe’s lead role, giving life to a film based in part on his own experiences…

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By Daniel Felsenthal (1) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jul 2017

Weinstein, who is neither a member of a Haredi community nor a speaker of Yiddish (on set, he used a translator), has created a work of interest…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for Guardian (4,584) on 26 Jul 2017

Menashe is a quiet triumph, pulling back when other films would go too far, delivering an engaging drama of intimate detail and considerable humanity…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Jul 2017

An intimate, affectionate and, to a degree, critical portrayal of both a man and the strict traditions he's raised in…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 24 Jul 2017

A stunning achievement in every sense…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 23 Jul 2017

Director Weinstein evokesthe warmth of Brooklyn's Hasidic community while at the same time offering implicit criticism of its insularity…

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By Kyle Kohner (23) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Jul 2017

With a deep understanding of the connective power of cinema, Weinstein manages to present this little Hasidic community upon relatable grounds…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Jul 2017

Though the fate of his journey isn’t terribly well communicated, it’s a privilege to have observed Menashe’s world from the inside…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 29 Mar 2017

Rather than pick apart rituals... Weinstein simply lets us see them in action as part of the natural fabric of Menashe's life…

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