| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

In the film's spare running time, director Eytan Fox strips away almost anything that doesn't present a dichotomy of conflict.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2004

It's too lean to deserve marquee billing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2004

A searing, tense and beautifully told film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2004

Levi and Knoller are so natural, so unconcerned with mugging for the camera, that what could have been a corny love story on paper is utterly sincere and touching on screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2004

Nothing happens in Yossi & Jagger that you couldn't have seen coming toward you in a fog. There are coincidences, hurt feelings, and more -- but what the movie lacks in ambition, originality, and grit, it makes up for in pure feeling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2004

If Yossi & Jagger is any indication, Mr. Fox has a bright future.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 22, 2004

Yossi & Jagger provides an authenic-seeming look into the underground world of homosexuals in the Israeli military.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2004

Surprisingly lighthearted.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 12, 2003

Although the movie is less than 70 minutes long, there's something direct and compelling about it.

Full Review | Nov 21, 2003

It well depicts the uneasy relationships among the soldiers.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2003

This beautiful, deceptively simple coming-out story martyrs one of its titular characters in order to free the other from his closet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2003

Performances are crisp, as is everything else about this vital, economical film, proof that less really can be more.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 23, 2003

The film offers a haunting portrait of a generation forced to risk their lives in the service of military goals they're far from totally committed to.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2003

A moving and admirably lean new wrinkle on the wartime romance genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2003

An unusually subtle and convincing study of group psychology and fluctuating morale among professionals under stress in close quarters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 25, 2003

Just 71 minutes long, but Fox sees to it that viewers get their money's worth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2003

Fox's slender but striking story gains strength from his matter-of-fact approach to potentially controversial material.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2003

At 71 minutes, the movie is scarcely more than an anecdote. But vivid as it is in establishing a specific milieu, its economy is its strength.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2003