The result is a quiet power-so quiet in fact that the score is almost non-existent-that never risks sentimentality or exploitation.

| Nov 4, 2013

Screenwriters Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma pull quite a few punches here, making the doctor improbably naive about Israeli-Palestinian tensions so that his transformation seems profound.

| Aug 29, 2013

"The Attack" doesn't force us to pick a side. But it does force us to question our outsiders' hope in conciliation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2013

Arouses profound questions about fanaticism, cultural identity, and the essential mystery of other people, even those we think we know best.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2013

It's set up as a descent into the heart of darkness, but it ends up playing out in pallid shades of grey.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 9, 2013

Imagine a blissful life taken away: Story of an Arab man who's assimilated into Israeli society but finds out that his wife was a suicide bomber. Nothing new here about the conflict, fair portrayal of the sides, thought provoking without solutions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 8, 2013

Answers prove more elusive than the questions.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 2, 2013

[Doueiri] does a fine job of presenting us with two worlds in conflict: modern, prosperous and progressive Tel Aviv, and Nablus, a city of shadows, squalor and paranoia.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2013

The Attack is the best kind of anti-war propaganda film, calm in feeling and mood, yet truly terrifying in showing the scourge of our age: terrorism, which can strike anybody, anywhere, at any time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 26, 2013

It's an accomplished drama anchored by an understated, captivating performance from an actor who fills nearly every frame of every scene.

| Original Score: 4.0/5.0 | Jul 24, 2013

"The Attack" is about madness, personal and political, and a tragic overlap of the two beyond understanding.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 12, 2013

The Israeli-Arab conflict is stripped to its most intensely personal level in The Attack, a haunting and heartbreaking meditation on violence, choice, love and duty that is one of the most remarkable films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2013

Delicately executed thriller balances its political baggage with unflagging suspense.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 28, 2013

As this film demonstrates in so many ways, the intractability of the Arab-Israeli political situation is, to put it mildly, not easily resolved, least of all onscreen.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 28, 2013

Though it's never less than involving, it grows in stature as it unfolds and ends as a more subtle and disturbing film about love, loss and tragedy than we might initially expect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2013

Remarkably accomplished and self-confident.

| Jun 27, 2013

"The Attack" starts out strong and swiftly unravels somewhere past the midpoint.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 21, 2013

What results is a film very much aimed at a Western audience, that is surefooted and fearless even as it ventures deeper and deeper into the dark heart of one of the most defining and complex conflicts of our time.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 20, 2013

The Attack spreads the blame around for what is undeniably a nasty situation, any way you look at it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2013

[An] intelligent, involving movie that's by turns a murder mystery and a politically charged argument about contemporary Palestinian identity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2013