The movie won 10 Israeli Academy Awards and prizes at various film festivals. It's easy to see why.

Full Review | Nov 15, 2002

Warm, bittersweet and charming.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 11, 2002

A tender, spirited look at love and community in the midst of war.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2002

The film eloquently persuades us that it is better to laugh than cry and better to make love than war, messages that never go out of date.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2002

The treatment, both as satire and sentimentality, is heavy-handed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

I never imagined that Yana's Friends would one day turn out to be so timely for all New Yorkers -- and indeed, all Americans.

| Oct 18, 2001

One of the best date movies to come out in months.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

Slight though it may be, Yana's Friends is life-affirming and filled with comic spirit that erupts even at the worst of times.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 12, 2001

Kaplun's smart, scrappy romantic comedy Yana's Friends displays an insouciance rarely found in Israeli film.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2001

A warm humanity washes over this lovely film, whose message is that gestures of love, however small or awkward, are crucial to the complicated art of survival.

| Sep 26, 2001