Entertaining but superficial... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2022

The film achieves a balance between plot levity and a rich context... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2022

Utilizes dramedy and romance to dig into people's idiosyncrasies and showcase the sociopolitical context of its setting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2022

Treads on unpredictable ground, using ironic humour to illuminate cultural differences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Honest in its approaches, with graceful lightness until the last few minutes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2020

While you may need a scorecard... to unravel all the plot-lines and twists, remember that this is a smart political satire from a very tough neighborhood, where laughs are often hard to come by.

| May 27, 2020

A lightweight but smart combination of satire, drama, and rom-com.

| Mar 13, 2020

This movie is situated in the hemisphere of The Reports on Sarah and Saleem and many others that try to highlight the conflict between Palestine and Israel, but its novelty is its humor. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2020

[Dan Kleinman and Sameh Zoabi] put their mark on an intelligent script. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2020

[The jokes] poke fun at the torpor Bassam shoves onscreen, and even if they succeed, said bits are shallow and the film confines its characters to a proscenium as a result.

| Jan 17, 2020

The ending could be stronger, but Tel Aviv on Fire does a nice job of integrating laughs into a prickly real-world situation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2019

Fortunately, it adds solid comedy to the dynamic, aided by terrific actors familiar from all types of international productions.

| Nov 4, 2019

...a fairly disappointing missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2019

It might not do much to advance peace in the Middle East, but this witty and charming comedy brings a unique perspective to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

| Sep 7, 2019

If only peace in the Middle East were as easy to achieve as the laughs in Zorabi's satire.

| Sep 3, 2019

If Jared Kushner wants to achieve his assigned goal of bringing peace to the Middle East, he could learn a lot from "Tel Aviv on Fire." So could you.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 18, 2019

It's not big on belly laughs, but its genial illustration of the belief that all of these people are more similar than they are different makes it a most pleasant way to spend 100 minutes.

| Aug 16, 2019

[Sameh Zoabi] deftly illustrates how art - even if a daily soap that traffics in clichés and stereotypes could ever be considered "art" - affects people's lives, dreams and self-image.

| Original Score: B | Aug 16, 2019

One spoiler: Tel Aviv does not burst into flames. But Salam's career might.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2019

Alas, the potential for sharp political satire takes a back seat to small screen spoofery, nudging this more in the direction of Soapdish, rather than Joe Dante's transcendent The Second Civil War.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2019