Divided into seven segments, 'The Gatekeepers' does not stick to a chronological telling of history but instead hopscotches around to establish a throughline of morality, which is what director Dror Moreh seems to be most interested in.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2021

Whatever his political past and motives, however, Moreh has directed a valuable and insightful work.

| Feb 28, 2021

The result is a mesmerizing documentary that distills some simple, devastating truths from a vast swath of complicated history.

| Aug 14, 2019

Six smart, tough guys, tightly framed and talking to the camera: Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh's compelling Oscar-nominated doc The Gatekeepers gives the voice of experience a human face.

| Feb 22, 2019

But though his film, consisting of interviews with only those six gatekeepers, is often one-sided -- though sometimes not in ways you'd expect -- it's always gripping and very often informative.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2018

With such incendiary opinion on offer, it might have been a temptation for Moreh to lay out these testimonies end to end... What makes the film so satisfying, though, is the appreciable craft with which the material is organized and presented.

| Jul 31, 2018

... "The Gatekeepers" never sets its audience adrift in moral and political quandaries.

| Feb 21, 2018

The complexities of the ongoing conflict are addressed with clarity, insight, candour and intimate revelations of personal moral struggles.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

No matter your opinion on the Israel-Palestine situation, The Gatekeepers is necessary viewing. It's very impressive that a documentary about Israel's intelligence-gathering organization comes off as neither pro-Israel nor anti-Israel.

| Jun 23, 2017

The history is fascinating enough to overcome the film's intrusive digital transitions.

| Apr 13, 2016

Anyone with a serious interest in Israel should see the extraordinary new documentary The Gatekeepers.

| Mar 21, 2016

The film bravely pulls focus on Israel's behaviour as an occupying power, the treatment of the Palestinians and joins the growing list of recent films that cast a critical eye over a subject that was once deemed too thorny to question.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2013

This is unprecedented stuff right here, on a topic so volatile it feels like it's just waiting to explode. And as a film, it's effective - for the most part.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 27, 2013

Dror Moreh's documentary is remarkable not for stylistic innovation but for the very fact it exists.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2013

The film is detailed and requires concentration, especially for those who need to read the subtitles. But the effort is worth it for anyone vaguely interested in the subject. And of course the subject goes to the heart of the human condition

| Sep 5, 2013

A candid, revelatory and at times disturbing documentary that represents one of the 'must-sees' of 2013.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 4, 2013

THE GATEKEEPERS doesn't want to function in binaries, it immerses you into the moral and ethical 'grey' quandary of Israel/Palestine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2013

The Gatekeepers shines as both an excellent history lesson and a remarkably in-depth look at one of the world's most important covert agencies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2013

The Gatekeepers is a fascinating, often shocking, look into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of some of the men who would know it best.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2013

Moreh's interviewees span generations, from elder statesman Avraham Shalom (mastermind of the 1960 Adolf Eichmann grab) to most recent spook-in-chief Yuval Diskin. Each displays a disarming mix of even-voiced candor and respect for talk-it-out diplomacy.

| Jul 1, 2013