Over and over again, Tantura underlines, highlights and italicizes the saying, usually attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, that history is a lie agreed upon.

| Aug 1, 2023

The documentary reevaluates the standards of truth, interrogating Israel’s dismissal of these events to begin a new, compelling conversation about Tantura.

| May 17, 2023

Given the current official state of Israeli politics, with a new coalition government that includes a fascist party, Schwarz’s effort took some courage.

| Jan 15, 2023

Documentary about the conflicting accounts of the genocide in a Palestinian village by Israeli troops, revealing the power of denial.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 13, 2022

Schwarz’s documentary, conversely, provides enough political doublespeak to engage in it with caution and skepticism, but this all feels like a morbid PR stunt.

| Dec 2, 2022

A damning exposé of a nation unwilling to admit its primordial sins.

| Dec 2, 2022

When “Tantura” finally moves into its final act, the wider emotional ripple effects of its subject matter are difficult to avoid, as the question shifts from what is remembered to who is allowed to remember (and be remembered) in the first place.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 1, 2022

Not simply a persuasive augmentation of Katz’s argument, but also a disturbing portrait of how very human impulses — passivity, rationalization, social pressures — can shape the writing of history.

| Dec 1, 2022

Schwarz does a fine job of selectively expanding the scope of Katz’s story from a highly subjective he-said/they-said dispute into a bigger story about cultural amnesia.

| Nov 28, 2022

Not a movie that will please an Israeli audience. That's a compliment.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 27, 2022

Tantura is an extremely well-researched film and is very competently put together, with numerous expert testimonies and priceless, previously unseen archive footage and photographs that leave little doubt as to what essentially happened...

| Oct 18, 2022

A hugely compelling story about how power tries to silence all other narratives.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 18, 2022

Not the least disturbing element here are interviews with elderly, still-kicking founders of a kibbutz...

| Jul 27, 2022

The colliding perspectives and accounts are fascinating, if a bit messy, in execution and yearn for a more cohesive assembly.

| Jun 8, 2022

Tantura is a wonderful film about state-sponsored cultural amnesia and how we deal (or dont) with the atrocities upon which our countries were built.

| Apr 30, 2022

The political film, an uneasy watch, explores the cover-up of displacement over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict of 1948.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 10, 2022

The film works on two levels: one is about the massacre; the other is about the psychology employed not only by perpetrators, but by the powerful forces that back them up.

| Feb 14, 2022

The paucity of official archival material and the insistence on Teddy Katzs project gives way to a film largely dictated by its incongruous storytellers... intriguing, but also seems to sidestep the full breadth of human tragedy at hand.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2022

Meticulously detailed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2022

Perhaps the most harrowing thing in Tantura, a striking documentary from Alon Schwarz, is the nervous laughter that slips out of the mouths of old men allegedly complicit in a massacre decades earlier.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 8, 2022