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Critics Consensus: A heartwarming movie that handles some weighty subjects with humor.
Critic Consensus: A heartwarming movie that handles some weighty subjects with humor.
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The movie won 10 Israeli Academy Awards and prizes at various film festivals. It's easy to see why.
Warm, bittersweet and charming.
A tender, spirited look at love and community in the midst of war.
It is heartwarming and often funny, but in its lightness somehow misses the mark.
The film eloquently persuades us that it is better to laugh than cry and better to make love than war, messages that never go out of date.
The treatment, both as satire and sentimentality, is heavy-handed.
Portrays not only the fear that Israelis live with every day, but also the difficulties in a nation where people are arriving from all over the world, not knowing Hebrew.
[Kaplun's] gentle, clear-eyed affection for his characters smooths out the film's rough edges and reminds viewers that friendship and even joy can be found during the most frightening times.
A small surprise at the end made me feel good about the whole movie, turning an amusing but slightly bland story into a winning experience.
The performances are solid, and the material is somewhat moving.
Yana's Friends works best showing its characters coping with war uncomfortably close to home.
A small, rather unfinished gem of a movie, but one that shines rather brightly nonetheless.
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