Asia is an outstanding showcase for Haas...

| May 15, 2023

Asia might not be an easy film to sit through with its honest interpretation of the relationship between pain and love, but it is without a doubt one of the best films of the year.

| Original Score: A | Jul 18, 2022

The camera follows the evolution of the characters with the patience of the observer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2021

Feels gimmicky. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 4, 2021

With her debut feature, Director Ruthy Pribar achieves a respectful, sober and genuinely emotional approach to the relationship of these two women in the face of the certain of death. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 3, 2021

Pribar may set our expectations certain ways, once even making me dread the path she had chosen, but her film isn't the usual mother/daughter movie, upending cliché time and time again in moving and intimate scenes.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 5, 2021

Asia puts us into the lives of two characters dealing with an irreversible fate that casts a deep shadow over a story that's not afraid to tackle complex issues and let them play out in ways that prove unsettling and emotionally powerful.

| Jul 3, 2021

Pribar's humane and heartbreaking drama is beautifully photographed and performed; a loving, warm, and even sexy film about death and dying that is teeming with life.

| Jun 26, 2021

I can't speak enough of the work of Haas here. She illuminates a mysterious struggle (we are never told exactly what her medical condition is) with grace and tenderness

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 12, 2021

Powerful, engrossing and profoundly human. Shira Haas and Alena Yiv give raw, natural performances.

| Original Score: 9.75/10 | Jun 10, 2021

Both Shira Haas and Alena Yiv deliver commanding performances in Asia.

| Jun 10, 2021

Asia and Vika struggle to emerge as full-fleshed characters from the movie's dull, blue-grey frames, while the script rushes through provocative plot turns in its bleak procession toward a wrenching conclusion.

| Jun 10, 2021

Asia is Ruthy Pribar's feature-length directorial debut, but it evinces an old hand's confidence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2021

Debut writer/director maturely sets up a very original mother and teen daughter relationship, as Russian immigrants in Israel dependent on each other, and friends.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 15, 2021

From Daniella Nowitz's muted, intimately lit lensing to the plaintive, judiciously used piano strains of Karni Postel's score, every formal element of "Asia" serves to illustrate and enrich the tricky, evolving relationship at its center...

| Dec 30, 2020

As to how the film goes wrong, where to begin? The indecent proposal or the workplace sexual harassment?

| Dec 17, 2020

Its account of the women's growing bond - a bond shaped by increasingly honest conversations - is believable and superbly acted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2020

There's a gentleness to the perspective which elevates the material to a higher level.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2020

Rigorously unsentimental...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2020

Sets itself a modest target and hits it dead on. A good film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2020