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A patience-trying docudrama almost completely devoid of any trace of narrative structure or even defined characters.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
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Kippur
Overview
When the Yom Kippur War breaks out, two Israeli soldiers find themselves unable to locate their unit. Eager to take part in the war effort, they join an airborne medical evacuation unit.
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Fresh
A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Gitai plunges the viewer into the reality of modern warfare, in which the enemy is often invisible -- we never see the Syrians in Kippur -- and battle lines are often unclear.
Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The relentless attention to the sheer awfulness of war, which is the film's great strength, is also something of a shortcoming.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
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