Quiet and unassuming, Eytan Fox gives us a rather simple narrative about the ever changing difficulties of being gay.

| Aug 7, 2019

A sensitive and emotive portrayal of one ageing individual's journey back from the depths of grief and despair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2019

The film ends on a moving, achingly ambiguous note, with Yossi getting more emotionally mature but not yet completely out of the woods.

| Feb 21, 2018

a very real portrait of a man on the verge of accepting himself

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 29, 2013

Filled with many of the awkward life moments that many gay men will recognise, as well as a freshly lensed look at the new Israel, Yossi is a strong and touching take on grief.

| Sep 8, 2013

Yossi is a stronger film than its predecessor, more deeply felt and less reliant on love-story conventions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2013

... an awfully familiar fantasy-for gays and straights alike-about an emotionally repressed older man saved by a young beauty who sees the kind soul and intelligence under the frumpy surface.

| Mar 23, 2013

Knoller is wonderful as the emotionally cut-off, yet vulnerable Yossi, who yearns for something more from life, but feels both terror at the prospect and unworthiness to claim it.

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

Yossi is an early spring breeze of a film - too delicate to be substantial but definitely holding the promise of warmth.

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

It's serious about its characters and their emotions, but still finds room for humor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2013

"Yossi" has an air of lightness but never feels insignificant.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2013

Fox understands that the joys and tears of looking for love are not unique to gay Israeli men...viewers can relate to the emotional conflicts regardless of one's orientation.

| Mar 7, 2013

Eytan Fox depicts modern gay life and contemporary Tel Aviv with sympathy and knowing insight, and he excels at creating casual rapport among actors; yet in film after film he undermines these gifts with hamfisted melodramatic plotting.

| Mar 7, 2013

Knoller manages to make even a withdrawn character compelling, and worth rooting for as Yossi struggles to shed his shell.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2013

Fox has graduated from amateur to modest professional.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2013

...[Knoller's] portrayal of a person locked in his own grief is both realistic and sympathetic, and Fox brings events to a conclusion that is more than worth the wait.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 21, 2013

The several allusions to Thomas Mann's forbidden-love novel "Death in Venice" are apt, but "Yossi" is also a standalone film and an extraordinary sequel.

| Feb 21, 2013

Hovers somewhere between a realistic take on love and the vision of romance sold by drugstore novels.

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

"Yossi" offers genuine pleasures (even some of Fox's trademark musical numbers).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2013

It's a slight but uplifting charmer that serves as a feel-good bookend to the sadder first film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2013