A dark, morose, confusing hodgepodge of uninteresting and unbelievable characters.

| Mar 1, 2007

Ayelet Zorer gives Nina grace, sexiness and a real personality. She's someone you'd want to see a movie about, though maybe you'd wish the movie were a little more polished than this one.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 6, 2005

Israeli society is one that has ample experience processing grief, and Nina's Tragedies explores that challenge with humanity and humor.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 12, 2005

The dry humor is disarming. The ensemble cast is engaging and interesting to watch. And the main plot, as it were (will Nadav and Nina find respective happiness?), is suspenseful.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2005

Passing eccentricities of character, but serious trouble staging honest and coherent emotional scenes....a surplus of preciousness and a deficit of truth-ringing reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2005

The comedy is feather-light and the emotions are drawn on situation, rather than on genuine involvement with substantively developed characters.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2005

A gently quirky, touching comedy from Israel about a young boy's infatuation with his aunt.

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

A humorous warts-and-all portrayal of a family.

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

Nina's Tragedies is full of gentle, labyrinthian turns, sly and sweet.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2005

Gavison's whimsical and melancholy tragicomedy keeps the Israeli-Arab conflict in the background.

| Original Score: C+ | May 29, 2005

A richly evoked family drama.

Full Review | May 27, 2005

Engagingly odd and full of sad, funny moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2005

A sad little comedy with enough surprises to keep the viewer guessing, and fine performances by all.

| May 21, 2005

A film about the whole panoply of life and love and death, blah blah blah.

Full Review | Original Score: '2/4' | May 13, 2005

You want to get caught up in Nadav's world and ride his emotional roller coaster, but the movie keeps you at a distance (like watching through a window).

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2005

It's well acted, and well written, but it rarely delivers the emotional resonance you keep expecting.

| Original Score: B | May 12, 2005

The chief problem with this exasperating and shamelessly contrived award-winning Israeli movie: It doesn't know when to stop telling and start showing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 8, 2005

A thoughtful and satisfying film of the sort American filmmakers rarely achieve.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 3, 2005

Writer-director Savi Gabizon brings a startling freshness to the coming-of-age tale.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2005

[An] intricately woven screenplay, captivating characters and observations of the complexities of modern Israeli life.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 1, 2005