Although overwhelmed by multiple themes and storylines, Minyan deftly depicts the convergence of two communities–Jewish and queer–and the bittersweet experience of living between them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

The ensemble cast, especially Levine, Hurt, Rifkin, Bloom, and McCann, does a convincing job of establishing place, time, and mood.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 2, 2022

This is a film which will speak volubly to viewers with intersectional identities of various kinds, but it's so beautifully made, so sensitively delivered, that anybody who loves cinema would be unwise to miss it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 14, 2022

With careful understatement, filmmaker Eric Steel tells a story about a young man who feels like an outsider in his tight community.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2022

What's most interesting about Eric Steel's tender coming-of-age drama is the queerness hiding in plain sight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2022

The film's insights into this milieu are a key source of richness in the grey, slow-moving story that unfolds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2022

An effective character piece creating a picture-perfect snapshot of '80s normalcy that feels both suffocating and a breath of fresh air. With a compellingly enigmatic performance from Levine, this is the best Jewish LGBT+ film since Disobedience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2022

Eric Steel has delivered a wholly believable and handsomely executed tale of acceptance which is further elevated by his peerless attention to detail and undiluted documentarian style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2022

An easily forgettable, painful waste of potential.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 7, 2022

Levine brings an assertive and intelligent performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2022

Effectively [finds] rhymes between Jewish and queer experience, and [draws] a subtle link between a community emotionally recovering from a genocide and another...approaching theirs.

| Oct 29, 2021

"Minyan" interrogates the interlocked spiritual and social dynamics of Brighton Beach's Eastern European Jewish population in the mid-1980s with tonal and visual solemnity.

| Oct 29, 2021

Steel's 1st fiction feature after 2 involving documentaries, he is better at creating period mise en scènes than 3D people in them, a poignant story marred by stereotypes.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 24, 2021

Its fantastic klezmer-score by David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg kept me feeling good even when morose.

| Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2021

The director Eric Steel follows the lead of his introverted protagonist and takes an understated approach to the story.

| Oct 21, 2021

Minyan is at its best when it is observing its characters.

| Original Score: B | Oct 19, 2021

Levine made his first impact on stage in The Inheritance, but his talent comes across more clearly on film because the camera can go in close enough to see the subtle play of emotions on his face.

| Oct 18, 2021

Though Minyan's slow pacing may test your patience, there's much to admire in the elegance of the filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2020

Minyan is a leisurely film, running almost two hours, but it's never boring thanks to the strength of the performances, the cinematography by Ole Bratt Birkeland, and especially the klezmer-inflected score by David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 23, 2020

With rich supporting characters (including Ron Rifkin's grandfather), this is a complex, nuanced work.

| Sep 18, 2020