Wedding Doll
Strand Releasing | Release Date: April 15, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenApr 14, 2016
In his first narrative feature, documentarian Nitzan Gilady demonstrates an assured grasp of visual storytelling, using a stunningly rugged desert setting that’s as much a character as the film’s perpetually sunny, intellectually challenged 24-year-old and her world-weary mother. Read full review
80
CineVueBen NicholsonApr 14, 2016
Wedding Doll may be a small film, but it's deftly executed and built on two remarkable leading performances. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 14, 2016
The bittersweet and gently moving Wedding Doll sidesteps so many of the traps it sets for itself because writer-director Nitzan Gilady is less interested in the purity of his heroine than he is in what it reveals from within the people around her. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshApr 14, 2016
Wedding Doll is a small film with a unique take on coming of age and finding one's own place in a world that's often unwelcoming to people who are different. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichael NordineApr 14, 2016
Gilady never treats her heroine as a prop in someone else's redemption arc, and Rosenblatt's performance will have you looking for her work in other films. Read full review
70
Screen DailyAllan HunterApr 14, 2016
It is a sad little tale but one that manages to find notes of hope amongst the setbacks and rejections of everyday life. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveyApr 14, 2016
Though the darker tonal shift toward the end is a bit jarring, director/scenarist Gilady demonstrates a deft, confident hand with the storytelling, cast and general packaging, and makes assertive use of the dramatic desert setting. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 15, 2016
I suppose the fact that I was affected as I was by Wedding Doll is testimony to its emotional effectiveness. But while Hagit is able to crack a smile at the movie’s end, I feel a pall wrapping around me every time I contemplate her predicament, or the predicament of her real-life models. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAndy WebsterApr 14, 2016
Mr. Gilady, a documentarian making his fiction feature debut as a writer and director, over-stacks the deck with this belabored if artfully shot story. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubBenjamin MercerApr 14, 2016
In spite of all Wedding Doll’s strengths, its scenario comes to seem a little unseemly: Giladi establishes Hagit’s hopes and dreams mostly just to show the terrible ways that they’re dashed. Read full review
50
The Film StageMichael SnydelApr 14, 2016
There’s a potentially good story to be mined here, probably most likely with the mother, but every time it starts to find fertile emotional ground, it can’t help but become distracted and search for another surface. Read full review
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