The Holy Land

Name: The Holy Land
Genre: Drama
Released: July 11, 2003
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 58

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CAVU Releasing | Release Date: July 11, 2003 | Unrated

Summary: A story of doomed, passionate love and coming of age in troubled times The Holy Land explores the underbelly of real life in Jerusalem after the sun goes down and the tourists and Orthodox families go to sleep. (CAVU Pictures)

Director: Eitan Gorlin

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 102 min

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Nathan Rabin

One of its great strengths lies in its surprising universality. Read full review

David Sterritt

The acting and directing are uneven, but many scenes have strong emotional and political power. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The story's resolution isn't very satisfying, but I considered most of this movie time well spent. Read full review

Ty Burr

For all the film's flaws, it has a caustic, nondenominational view of apocalypses to come. Read full review

Stephen Holden

A barbed reflection on the great divide between secular and ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israeli culture. But its digressive screenplay lacks focus and momentum and is too oblique to connect many of the dots between its characters and their behavior. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

It has the awkwardness that characterizes many first features and, as befits a culture that does not always prize refinement, some of its performances and situations are not as subtle as they should be. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The film's violent finale comes out of nowhere and will leave bewildered viewers wondering if they might have dozed off for a reel or two. Read full review

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