Asphalt Zahov
New Yorker Films | Release Date: March 13, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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88
Boston GlobeLoren King
It is haunting in its literal and symbolic meanings, which is the powerful, lingering effect of Yellow Asphalt. Read full review
80
VarietyLael Lowenstein
With its remarkably intimate look at Israeli Bedouin culture, a subject heretofore little treated, Danny Verete's Yellow Asphalt is a deeply affecting and brutally uncompromising anthology of three unrelated stories. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
More than the sum of its parts. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
The inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
These three films form a remarkably cohesive whole, both visually and thematically, through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people. Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Turner
So lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Though it's tempting to praise Verete for having the courage to show the worst of both worlds, only a propagandist could get away with being so reductive; an artist should be held to a higher standard. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Dryly cynical; the scenarios pit plump, amoral, industrialized Jews against draconian, wife-beating, tribal Arabs. Read full review
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