Ahed’s Knee is often captivating, especially in its use of pop music and in the impassioned back-and-forth arguments between Yud and Yahalom. It’s also incredibly overwhelming and not particularly enjoyable to watch.

| Aug 17, 2022

A work of autofiction shot straight from the hip, Ahed’s Knee is a filmmaker’s cri de coeur for artistic freedom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2022

Shot and edited so that the visuals are as combative as the text itself, Ahed's Knee boasts stylistic pyrotechnics that may prove alienating to some, but its howl of fury resonates deeply.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2022

It's an angry film and shows its director's resourcefulness in saying what he has to say in the strongest terms (in the guise of making a fiction) while getting away from the grips of the censors while making a film within the country.

| Jun 27, 2022

Anchored by strong performances by Pollak and Fibak, Lapid wants everyone to know that no one should be censored, and citizens should be allowed to criticize their government for its faults without fear.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 21, 2022

...a challenging but engrossing movie experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2022

I felt distant. Overall, this is all too dramatic and obtuse to fully satisfy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 3, 2022

This is not a movie, it's a whirlwind; a force of nature that nothing and no one can contain. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 23, 2022

It’s all entertaining enough, in a shaggy way. But if the director can’t stay focused on his own subject, how are we expected to do so?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 3, 2022

A disappointing film (of a potentially great one) that lost its way in the desert.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 29, 2022

You may not agree with the filmmaker's left-wing views of Israeli's government but you're likely to be transfixed by his cinematic flourishes.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 21, 2022

I don't know if it actually achieves what it wants to achieve, but it is so bold, brave, and stylistically risky in where it goes that you have to give [Nadav Lapid] some props for going there.

| Apr 19, 2022

If anything, the story might have gone on longer, as the Tamimi project never entirely takes shape and the powerful forces let loose in Y’s desert epiphany fizzle out by the end credits.

| Apr 7, 2022

The story is so confrontational, the entire endeavor feels like the work of someone who doesn't care if they get exiled or blacklisted.

| Apr 1, 2022

Lapid’s objective here is obvious, and boring...

| Apr 1, 2022

This film is a Rothko of warm, hot, and flaming reds. Here anger is not just an emotion or a frustration, it is a character unto itself.

| Apr 1, 2022

It’s a rather confusing mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2022

It’s not pretty, and it doesn’t care. “Ahed’s Knee” means to shatter your complacency, and also the complacency of its chosen medium.

| Apr 1, 2022

In being self-reflexive -- and so personally self-questioning -- the film obtains a rich sense of ambiguity that would rarely be found in a screed.

| Mar 31, 2022

A day in the life of an Israeli filmmaker undergoing a personal crisis, in a militarized society that breaks bodies and minds.

| Original Score: A | Mar 31, 2022