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The Band's Visit is both a clever, subtle slice-of-life comedy, and poignant cross-cultural exploration.
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What matters is the sense of exhilaration you take away with you. Jul 10, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
What matters is the sense of exhilaration you take away with you.
Sandra Hall
The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny. Apr 13, 2008 | Full Review…
The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny.
Jonathan F. Richards
Like no fish-out-of-water film in recent memory, it leaves you with the hope that these fish will find their way back to water, and maybe learn to share that puddle before the desert dries it up entirely. Apr 11, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
Like no fish-out-of-water film in recent memory, it leaves you with the hope that these fish will find their way back to water, and maybe learn to share that puddle before the desert dries it up entirely.
Roger Moore
Kolirin has a fine sense of where to place the camera and when to cut between shots for maximum comic effect. Mar 14, 2008 | Full Review…
Kolirin has a fine sense of where to place the camera and when to cut between shots for maximum comic effect.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over. Mar 14, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over.
Ty Burr
A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us. Mar 7, 2008 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us.
Roger Ebert
For all of its dry wit and visual gags, The Band's Visit is ultimately a poignant slice of life about people from totally different backgrounds and cultures forging unexpected connections and healing old wounds. Jul 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
For all of its dry wit and visual gags, The Band's Visit is ultimately a poignant slice of life about people from totally different backgrounds and cultures forging unexpected connections and healing old wounds.
Matthew Lucas
Even without the coveted Oscar pedigree, this modest comedy has to be the most delightful and enjoyable movie now playing in local theaters. Feb 12, 2018 | Full Review…
Even without the coveted Oscar pedigree, this modest comedy has to be the most delightful and enjoyable movie now playing in local theaters.
Dan DiNicola
It's not going to solve any problems in the Middle East, and it doesn't attempt to, either. It's just a quiet story about the uncomfortable charm of coerced hospitality. Aug 22, 2017 | Full Review…
It's not going to solve any problems in the Middle East, and it doesn't attempt to, either. It's just a quiet story about the uncomfortable charm of coerced hospitality.
Annie Wagner
It's both quintessentially Israeli and an enjoyable experience that will touch audiences no matter what their background. Mar 1, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It's both quintessentially Israeli and an enjoyable experience that will touch audiences no matter what their background.
Hannah Brown
[Writer/director Eran] Kolirin finds bittersweet humor in the comedy of their melancholy lives and fumbling efforts at communication and common ground Aug 3, 2011 | Full Review…
[Writer/director Eran] Kolirin finds bittersweet humor in the comedy of their melancholy lives and fumbling efforts at communication and common ground
Sean Axmaker
Filmmaker Kolirin shows Israelis what they've been missing, and the rest of us what the Middle East could be, in the gentle, human-scale antics of the confused Egyptian band. Apr 28, 2011 | Full Review…
Filmmaker Kolirin shows Israelis what they've been missing, and the rest of us what the Middle East could be, in the gentle, human-scale antics of the confused Egyptian band.
Kelly Vance
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