Incitement
Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: January 31, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Movie NationRoger MooreJan 26, 2020
Movies about assassins (“Nine Hours to Rama,” “The Gandhi Murder”) rarely get this deeply into the life and conditions that inspire a political murder. “Incitement,” which swept last year’s Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel’s entry as “Best International Feature” for Hollywood’s Oscars, manages to be both thorough, damning and fraught throughout. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranFeb 6, 2020
A chilling portrait of how fanaticism can grow and be enabled, this is a matter-of-fact film that moves with an awful inexorability toward its foregone conclusion. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberJan 30, 2020
A rare look into the mind of an assassin, Incitement provokes and disturbs. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJan 30, 2020
Potently, Incitement depicts Amir as just one member of a self-reinforcing fringe. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNell MinowJan 31, 2020
The extreme, sharply divisive, partisan language might have seemed a world away to us if we had seen it 25 years ago. Now, it seems chillingly close. Read full review
75
Slant MagazinePat BrownJan 30, 2020
Admirably, Yaron Zilberman’s film focuses on the cyclical nature of violence in a decades-old conflict. Read full review
70
VarietyAlissa SimonJan 30, 2020
While Incitement is a compelling watch, with archival footage neatly woven in, and offers a salutary warning about how easily democracies are endangered, this psychological profile of a political assassin nevertheless falls into a kind of moral trap. Read full review
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