... a film that handles tragic ironies lightly and offers simple hope in lieu of policy prescriptions.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 30, 2005

'From the milk we drank together, something of my blood, my life is in you,' Musa tells Danae, and explains more about this moving portrait than any political debate could.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2005

Amounts to little more than pictures from a family album.

| Original Score: C | Oct 20, 2005

It's a documentary of Upstairs Downstairs dimension.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 15, 2005

[The filmmaker] veers into self-indulgence, but Obeidallah's drive to give his kids a better life - even at the risk of abandoning their homeland - is touching.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2005

Becomes an odd companion piece to the stunning Capturing the Friedmans, one of the most disturbing chronicles of family dysfunction ever documented.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 23, 2005

Slim, heartbreaking film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2005

The man at its heart is a 76-year-old Palestinian named Musa, and if he and we are never quite sure what the movie is truly about it's still a pleasure to make his acquaintance.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 10, 2005

Elon uses quiet and silence to great effect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 2005

Layered, loving and deeply personal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2005

Compelling with its inside-out look at the crisis of the Middle-East, even if there is a fair bit of narcissism involved.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2005

Though, at times a bit incomplete, this documentary is still quite endearing, engaging and extremely educational in matters of politics and heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2005

A work of powerful humanism that could unsettle entrenched points of view.

Full Review | May 21, 2005

Elon shines a light on Israeli-Palestinian relations in ways that are profound, human and hopeful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2005

Elon presumably intends to send a positive message about individual relationships transcending politics, but the film leaves too much unsaid to do so.

| May 13, 2005

Full of heart-rending moments, in which people of good faith search for answers to what, in the end, remain painfully irreconcilable questions.

| May 13, 2005

Fascinating in its reticence, pic's honest, well-intentioned exploration involving two families fearlessly emerges with a far different picture than was originally envisioned.

| May 13, 2005

This brisk, flavorful film deals with the difficult strains that politics can put on personal relations...

Full Review | May 8, 2005