Uri Klein
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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The Farewell (2019) |
Wang's film simmers on a low flame, which is also the source of its charm and the empathy it stirs. - Haaretz
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| Posted Feb 12, 2020
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1917 (2019) |
The result is an unparalleled and impressive spectacle, to which the eyes are riveted. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 07, 2020
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A Rainy Day in New York (2019) |
If "A Rainy Day in New York" aspires to be a situation comedy, the situations lack any comical element. If it intends to be a romantic comedy, the blend of the comic and the romantic seems forced and lacks any stable basis in the script. - Haaretz
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| Posted Oct 16, 2019
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After the Wedding (2019) |
This is the second time we've watched this cinematic wedding and followed its aftermath, and if Freundlich's film conveys a message of any sort, it's that twice is sometimes once too many. - Haaretz
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| Posted Oct 07, 2019
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Downton Abbey (2019) |
It's not a disgrace compared to the series, but it doesn't empower the television version or add anything to it. It's superfluous. - Haaretz
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| Posted Sep 17, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019) |
"Pain and Glory" is a lovely, moving and compelling work, like every Almodovar picture. - Haaretz
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| Posted Aug 13, 2019
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Yesterday (2019) |
[I]t all seems truly unnecessary. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jul 05, 2019
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) |
[The film] is not directed very skillfully. One problem is that Berlinger uses too many songs on the soundtrack, to represent the period of the narrative. Still, the film works as a kind of existential allegory centering on a monster who exudes charisma. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jun 01, 2019
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The Favourite (2018) |
In short, for the first time, a Lanthimos film brought me sheer enjoyment. - Haaretz
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| Posted Feb 08, 2019
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Green Book (2018) |
The occupation with racism in 1960s America is translated in the movie into simplistic, sentimental kitsch, which creates for present-day America a reactionary white fantasy. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 29, 2019
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The Silent Revolution (2018) |
What is the source of the romanticization and nostalgia? ...It is a longing that is especially evident in mainstream films like "The Silent Revolution," for simpler days, when it was possible to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 23, 2019
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) |
"Mary Poppins Returns" is one of those contemporary films that attack us with weightiness instead of wrapping us in warmth. - Haaretz
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| Posted Dec 21, 2018
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First Man (2018) |
The film is a demanding but praiseworthy experience. - Haaretz
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| Posted Oct 23, 2018
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Transit (2018) |
What Petzold does in "Transit" is one of the most radical actions in the history of the link between cinema and memory of the war and the Holocaust; it relates to the connection and the confrontation between time and place. - Haaretz
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| Posted Sep 27, 2018
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What Will People Say (2017) |
[Haq] presents the story in a formulaic, tendentious manner, not allowing its human and ideological complexities to shine through. - Haaretz
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| Posted Sep 17, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman (2018) |
[BlacKkKlansman] contains both comic aspects and references to buddy movies, but its power derives from the way they are interwoven with a broad sweep of thematic and emotional elements Lee introduces, for the most part successfully. - Haaretz
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| Posted Aug 14, 2018
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Frances Ha (2012) |
Part of the success of "Frances Ha" is due to Greta Gerwig's portrayal of Frances. Despite an occasional lapse into mannerisms...her performance is precise, and some kind of inner light shines through her occasionally clumsy physical presence. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jun 18, 2018
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Disobedience (2017) |
The allusiveness of "Disobedience" becomes the springboard for the conceptual and emotional ambivalence that invigorates the film. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jun 13, 2018
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A Letter From London (2018) |
A Letter from London proceeds chronologically but does not add up to more than a story told step by step without addressing its complexity in a historically and ideologically challenging manner. - Haaretz
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| Posted Apr 06, 2018
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Some Like It Veiled (2017) |
The result is a feeling of missed opportunity, tinged with embarrassment. - Haaretz
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| Posted Mar 15, 2018
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A Fantastic Woman (2017) |
"A Fantastic Woman" is above all the story of a woman who loves, loses her love and fights for the universal human right to experience her loss and mourn for it, so that she will be able to get on with her life. - Haaretz
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| Posted Mar 08, 2018
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Phantom Thread (2017) |
It's impossible to take your eyes off the screen in Phantom Thread, a masterful work with a core both dark and romantic. - Haaretz
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| Posted Feb 16, 2018
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The Post (2017) |
The adventurous tone is what makes the result fun to watch, but it also makes us realize that if this were only an adventure story, we would not need to be quite so worried. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 17, 2018
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American Sniper (2014) |
Because of the way Eastwood crafts his hero and because of that hero's place in the overall work, the result, while nationalistic, does not romanticize patriotism. I can't remember another American movie that managed to avoid doing that so successfully. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) |
It's superficial, it's manipulative, it's off-putting and embarrassing. But there's no denying that this says something about the moment in which the book was published and the movie released. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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The Theory of Everything (2014) |
[Theory of Everything] turns him into the melodramatic hero of a limited drama - a work whose circumscribed nature clashes sharply with the cosmic reach of Hawking's work and
vision. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Selma (2014) |
Selma is not just a chronicle of historical developments; it aims to do more than just involve us in King's fight and move us as it unfolds. The film is very frequently moving, but it has higher, more intelligent goals than that. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Into the Woods (2014) |
The essence of Sondheim and Lapine's musical is there; but you have to look for it carefully. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) |
Just listing all of these materials already suggests the complex experience that Birdman offers; Inarritu takes them and makes a movie that is thrillingly impossible to define. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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A Most Violent Year (2014) |
A Most Violent Year avoids the biggest pitfall in its path: it does not try to offer us the story of a capitalist with integrity. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Princess (2014) |
It may be that in her first feature, Shalom-Ezer set herself a distinguished, even bold agenda, but the task was beyond her reach. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Still Alice (2014) |
While it is certainly a respectable work, it operates solely on a restrained emotional level. In the end, Still Alice somehow avoids a real confrontation with its own materials, giving us instead a disguised form of sentimentality. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Dearest (2014) |
To be honest, I had not even heard of Dearest when it opened in Israel; the experience it offered me was impressive and even surprising in its force and wisdom. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Jack Goes Boating (2010) |
Jack Goes Boating is an impressive display of Hoffman's work. As an actor, and director, Hoffman always recognized the power of restraint to create a memorable impression - albeit, in this case, not one that leaves behind an indelible trace. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Coming Home (2014) |
A surfeit of melodramatic peaks weakens the Chinese director's latest film and makes it tedious to watch. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Mommy (2014) |
All three of the leads do excellent work, but Anne Dorval is especially stunning. I won't resort to the cliché "larger than life" to describe her performance, because nothing is larger than life in Mommy - except for life itself. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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The Water Diviner (2014) |
There are some good scenes in Crowe's directorial debut, but it mostly feels like a fumbled opportunity to make a much more significant film. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Fury (2014) |
The narcissism is evident in every gesture he makes, in every line he delivers. Like the movie itself, whose contradictions conceal a fairly simple agenda for this stability-hungry era, Brad Pitt tries to present himself here as a model of masculinity. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Wish I Was Here (2014) |
The Braff brothers tried to say something in Wish I Was Here about the commitment and faith that hold families
together. But their hesitancy allows the message to dissolve into the overall banality of the movie. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Interstellar (2014) |
Christopher Nolan's spectacular film is filled with frustration, anger, and guilt, and also strives for acceptance and even redemption. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Rosewater (2014) |
Stewart's comic genius fails to translate into film excellence in his first attempt as a writer and director. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Mr. Turner (2014) |
All in all, the
150-minute Mr. Turner is an impressive accomplishment, laudable for the way it uses the figure of a single artist to explore both art and cinema. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Next to Her (2014) |
Every scene is good, its careful design enhancing the movie's portrayal of a human reality and eliciting the right response from the audience. Few movies warrant such unhesitating praise. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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The Imitation Game (2014) |
With apologies to all the historians out there, I have to say that given how much I enjoyed The Imitation Game, I don't really care how factually accurate it is. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) |
While interesting as yet another Hollywood biblical/historical epic, it is disappointing, even meager, in
every other way. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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While We're Young (2014) |
Baumbach's intelligence and uniqueness are evident in While We're Young. On the whole, though, the movie seems like it got lost on its search for some creative and human truth. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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The Kind Words (2015) |
Above all, The Kind Words explores the fragility of familial identity and relationships, but does little beyond showing that such fragility exists. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Jurassic World (2015) |
A massive disappointment, Jurassic World fails to emulate its three predecessors in Spielberg's horror series. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Danny Collins (2015) |
Danny Collins is a perfect example of a whole that is less than the sum of its parts, some of which are quite good in themselves. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 12, 2018
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Ted 2 (2015) |
The chutzpah that made Ted a successful and amusing parody of American culture is missing from the sequel. - Haaretz
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| Posted Jan 11, 2018
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