A visually stunning, stylistically transcendental and politically audacious indictment of the absurd hostilities and needless wars.

| Oct 26, 2023

[Writer-director Samuel] Moaz is a daring, unpredictable storyteller, and his eccentric plot construction, which also takes into account the son's last days, turns an intimate emotional drama into a larger statement about fate and justice.

| Mar 9, 2020

A film full of mystery and switchbacks is resolved in resounding style.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 4, 2019

The film's tastefully constricted aesthetic is enjoyably at odds with its unruly, philosophical themes; the slipperiness of a dual identity, the fragility of war and the relentless manner in which grief can leak into a home's every crevice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2019

Hellerian surrealism. Slapstick comedy. There are many tones and textures set against two backdrops in Samuel Maoz's long-awaited follow-up to Lebanon.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Maoz definitely knows how to knock a film together, so fingers crossed that the window between this and his next one is a lot more narrow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Maoz creates a deadpan J'accuse, razor-edged and hugely original. The truth? It is unmissable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2019

Before the retrospective letdown, there is an exhilarating kind of disorientation as we move from one narrative section to the next.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2019

Divided into three unequal sections, the film has a powerful message about life in contemporary Israel, a message some will find confronting.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 22, 2018

Unsettling, occasionally shocking but always fascinating, Foxtrot is one of those films that demands to be seen and remembered.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 21, 2018

It's an extraordinary film, far from easy, ultimately thoughtful and hard to forget.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2018

Like a self-inflicted wound, it leaves a mark.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 20, 2018

The best thing to be said of this well-intentioned film is that it doesn't resort to lecturing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 6, 2018

With caustic wit and fantastic performances for all involved, the film is destined to be an anti-war classic. War, war never changes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2018

"Foxtrot" is far too interior to be called flashy, but there's something striking in director Samuel Maoz's visual confidence, the way he translates his characters' states of mind into images.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2018

A despairing work that's not quite as gripping as its predecessor, "Foxtrot" still manages to make a powerful statement about the unintended side effects of living in a constant state of war.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2018

Particularly impressive is Ashkenazi, who brings to Michael a soulful but volatile insecurity. It's a hauntingly realized performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2018

Maoz is a director of gallows humor and creamy visual control, and the movie at times dances along the edge of magical realism only to pull the characters and the audience back with a jolt.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2018

The results are stunning. Foxtrot takes us from unfathomable mourning to soul-numbing tedium and back again.

| Original Score: A | Mar 22, 2018

Most everything ... in "Foxtrot" feeds into a singular, aching illustration of fate at its cruelest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 22, 2018