Name: One of Us
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-08-03T21:18:19-07:00
Rating: 93

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Harrowing and heartbreaking, One of Us offers an intimate, revealing glimpse inside a notoriously private community and those who would dare defy it. Read critic reviews

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Director:

Rachel Grady

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Rachel Grady
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Critic Reviews for One of Us

All Critics (28) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (2)

One of Us is a powerful look at how difficult it can be to leave a life that completely shaped and dictated one's worldview.

March 23, 2020 | Full Review…

Bilge Ebiri
Spirituality & Health
Filmmakers like Heidi and Rachel, are examples of why more female directors are needed.

August 27, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Robert Daniels
812filmreviews
They had no interest in making an "objective documentary," although I doubt the Hasidim would have made themselves available to two women with a camera and their own hair.

November 7, 2017 | Full Review…

David Edelstein
New York Magazine/Vulture
One of Us offers a rare window into a highly insular community that is often misunderstood, or tacitly sanctioned for fear of stoking anti-semitism.

October 25, 2017 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Jude Dry
indieWire
The terror and trauma of fleeing fundamentalism is front and center in One of Us, a harrowing new documentary.

October 20, 2017 | Full Review…

Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
... it's broadly understandable, too, which makes One of Us a bridge into empathy even for the outsider.

October 20, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Alissa Wilkinson
Vox
It doesn't critique religion itself but rather the sectarian aspects of this group and how it affects its members. [Full Review in Spanish]

April 17, 2020 | Full Review…

Fernanda Solórzano
Letras Libres
The movie's narrow focus limits the portrait that's painted and leaves us with questions about its accuracy. Which it turns out, are justified.

April 13, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Movie Nation
By employing refreshingly potent visuals in a marginalized story that needs telling, Ewing and Grady have created one of the year's best films.

February 8, 2020 | Full Review…

Jon Hogan
Hyperallergic
Goes farther into observing Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in US than any nonfiction film...Emotional pain of those trying to leave its control tugs at the heart.

December 31, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Nora Lee Mandel
Maven's Nest
Ewing and Grady impart no judgement, but rather allow their subjects to reveal a self composed critique of the Hasidic community in which they were raised via an anxiously tailing camera that acts as both fly on the wall and confessional.

December 5, 2018 | Full Review…

Jordan M. Smith
Nonfics
[Etty] is not only the standout subject of the triptych, but her courage and the film's portrayal of her transition into general society makes the whole thing a must-see.

February 9, 2018 | Full Review…

Christopher Campbell
Thrillist

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Audience Reviews for One of Us

Mar 15, 2018

Although it loses momentum and becomes repetitious in its second half, this is a solid and very interesting documentary that works as a nice companion piece to Jesus Camp, as it also offers us a disturbing - and even terrifying - look at the harmful side of religion.

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