If you thought Nobody Wants This was the raciest religion-infused rom-com of 2024 or Nicole Kidman had cornered the cougar market, just wait until you see Nathan Silver’s provocative tale that’s more Harold and Maude than Family Affair’s Brooke and Chris.

| Jan 19, 2025

It might not be kosher, but it is hilariously uncomfortable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 17, 2025

It may have some minor cliches of American independent cinema and Jewish comedy, but it is an enjoyable film and at times - in its own unconventional way - unequivocally moving. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 14, 2025

Both talented actors, staples in this type of cinema, bring life to complex characters, and for them, the film also represents a "second chance" in their respective careers. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 4, 2024

“Between the Temples” is a rare treat, a simply extraordinary dramedy with exceptional writing and performances telling a compelling and unusual story.

| Oct 18, 2024

Not much in the material stimulates, and the film, sloppily rendered and off-punttingly screwy, doesn’t leave an impression.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 15, 2024

Between the Temples is both off-kilter and perfectly logical in its own illogical way. Nathan Silver’s film is a balm for the heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2024

Silver, who has a knack for acerbic wit and tortured metafictions, retains a sense of his idiosyncratic chaos and an aesthetic scuzziness.

| Sep 24, 2024

Schwartzman's good, but it's Carol Kane's movie all the way.

| Sep 16, 2024

Overall, I increasingly felt that, with its messy and confused directing style, this movie kept forgetting that films are also – if not prominently – a visual medium.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 14, 2024

“Between the Temples” is a disappointment and I was expecting more.

| Sep 12, 2024

Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the lead roles they’ve long deserved.

| Sep 5, 2024

The beauty of Between the Temples is twofold: In how it positions recognizable faces in a small dramedy about coming together to find happiness, and in its gloriously-witty way of telling a story...

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 4, 2024

Between the Temples is often funny, sometimes uncomfortable to watch, and, despite its flaws, quite moving.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2024

The year’s most Jewish film in a year that desperately needs Jewish films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2024

Singing in its own key, there might not be a more authentic and purely entertaining film this year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 30, 2024

Director Nathan Silver’s hopeful film demonstrates the adaptability of tradition, and the possibility of reconciliation and continuity across the generations.

| Aug 30, 2024

Excellent work all around.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2024

If the movie is constructed of confrontations, then it’s about the rendezvous between identity and affirmation, and our desperate need for larger-than-life questions to retain the vitality we imagine for them once we think we've found the answers.

| Aug 30, 2024

The chemistry between... Kane and Schwartzman is ticklish and electric, rare, moving and awfully funny inside one tumultuous comedy. Oddity is idiosyncrasy, is forgivable, is given one huge hug. Misunderstandings make the world. Anarchy reigns.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 29, 2024