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

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

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

Lapid specializes in allowing prickly characters to vent and reveal the complexities of a land and its people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2022

One can admire its intensity and depth of feeling, as well as the distressed self-surveying at its core, and still find the Ahed’s Knee an unfocused harangue.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 19, 2022

What makes Ahed’s Knee so powerful is the way the movie detonates before our eyes.

| Mar 18, 2022

An imaginatively directed psychodrama about a director's artistic and emotional crisis.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2022

It’s a howl of rage.

| Mar 17, 2022

Political outrage fuses with personal anguish in the Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s raucous, hard-edged dramatic rant about a filmmaker in crisis.

| Mar 14, 2022

[It] gives an insider's perspective that is rare in the lingering Palestinian-Israeli conflict...

| Sep 20, 2021

The movie plays like something that Lapid needed to purge from his system. With any luck, by next time he'll have recovered his interest in subtext.

| Jul 9, 2021

With Ahed's Knee, Nadav Lapid plays a game with alter egos that's at once canny and frustrating.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2021

There is some really distinctive film-making language here, with the looming, uncontrolled closeups, whip-pans between characters for dialogue scenes, the throbbing sound design and some really sensational musical set pieces.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2021

It's a film that is certain to please Lapid's fans, and perhaps garner him some new admirers, though not necessarily one that will win over an audience.

| Jul 8, 2021

Quite possibly brilliant, and very definitely all but unbearable, "Ahed's Knee" is filmmaking as hostage-taking. If such language seems charged, this is Nadav Lapid: All language is charged.

| Jul 8, 2021

This new film feels like the work of someone who is flailing around, angry at everything and everyone and unwilling to take a step back and assess his thoughts, feelings and priorities in the interests of good drama.

| Jul 8, 2021

Yet Ahed's Knee is fundamentally a work of art rather than politics.

| Jul 8, 2021

Ahed's Knee is a radical film for an Israeli movie - or for any movie.

| Jul 7, 2021

Nadav Lapid does not make polite films: they spit and snarl and get way up in your face, brashly and constantly switching tack to disrupt your viewing pleasure, even if that means interrupting their own train of thought.

| Jul 7, 2021

It's a film about a filmmaker grappling with the impotency of a lost cause.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 7, 2021