Her movie is indeed ambitious and her goals admirable. But sometimes it seems more position paper than cinema.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2005

A work of exceptional subtlety and is all the more captivating and heart-rending for being so.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2005

Yedaya drowns her characters in realist grit, a colorless screenplay and no score to speak of, rendering this open book of a movie alienating in all the wrong ways.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2005

This movie seems to be meditating on the whys and hows of the spoiling process -- raising more questions than can possibly be answered, and in this sense, at least, far from dogmatic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2005

Ms. Yedaya may have made a subtler and more interesting film about prostitution than she originally intended.

| Jun 23, 2005

Even as Or joins an escort service and begins to follow in her mother's footsteps, Yedaya holds out hope that the girl will stop trying to rescue Mom and save herself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 3, 2005

A raw drama from Israeli director Keren Yedaya.

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

With a cool head and level gaze, Keren Ye-daya's stark first feature attempts a Bressonian trajectory of tragic inevitability.

| May 31, 2005

Views the sex trade as an infectious societal disease.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2005

In the Israeli film Or, about a prostitute and her teenage daughter, both clothes and humanity are stripped away with impunity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 14, 2005

Consistently engaging, non-judgmental and cumulatively powerful two-hander marks a noteworthy feature debut for Israeli helmer Keren Yedaya.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2004

When the director fails to conflate the film's sexual unease with larger social issues, Or (My Treasure's sexual paranoia begins to reek of exploitation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2004