Yes
Kino Lorber | Release Date: March 27, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
85
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 23, 2025
As sincere in its satire as it is satirical in its sincerity, the deliriously provocative Yes is a veritable orgy of self-loathing surrender that reaffirms Lapid as the world’s most visceral director on a shot-by-shot basis. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJoshua RothkopfApr 3, 2026
It’s a movie about a citizenry at war with itself, hoping to keep the plates spinning for one more night. You watch it and think how easy it would be to envision an American remake — and wonder, too, if a filmmaker like Lapid even exists here. Read full review
90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyMar 30, 2026
The movie’s rage is righteous, its symbols profound. It is hard to imagine a fiction film that could rise to the severe aesthetic demands of its enormous subjects, but “Yes” is the rare film that challenges the cinema at large to try. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 26, 2026
Yes is an unsparing movie and can be hard to watch partly because Lapid’s raw fury and maximalist approach can border on off-putting excess. There are times in “Yes” when he seems to be veering out of control. At other times, he almost seems to bait you to look away, to turn off and tune out just like his revelers, even as he inexorably pulls you in, forcing you to bear witness alongside him. Read full review
90
Screen RantGregory NussenOct 31, 2025
Yes is an astonishing protest film whose comedy belies a broken heart. Read full review
90
VarietyGuy LodgeMay 23, 2025
A whirling, maximalist satire at once despairing and exuberant, subtle as a cannonball in its evisceration of the ruling classes and those who obey them, it’s both absurdist comedy and serious-as-cancer polemic: as grave as any film with an extended dance break to 2000s novelty hit “The Ketchup Song” can possibly be. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMay 23, 2025
Yes! becomes an anguished film, though that eventuality isn’t as nauseatingly propulsive as its first chapter, which is such a caustic depiction of cognitive dissonance that it stings to watch. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzApr 3, 2026
Like most of the director’s work—including “Ahed’s Knee”—it has many expressionistic and dreamlike elements, and weaves a loose, fairly simple story around wild situations that are mainly about questioning Israel’s self-image, prodding it, sometimes tearing at it. Read full review
80
The Travers TakePeter TraversApr 3, 2026
Israeli filmmaker Navid Lapid is taking the risk that audiences will embrace a tragically real situation about his country’s military culture presented as an absurdist comedy. Say yes Read full review
80
Rolling StoneDavid FearMar 30, 2026
Yes is easily the most controversial film to hit theaters this year so far. It’s also, for all of the intoxicating rush of Lapid’s excessive style and cup-spilleth-over storytelling, one of the more sobering and vital ones as well. Read full review
80
IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellMar 28, 2026
Destined for instant controversy and an eventual time capsule documenting Israel’s normalizing of barbarism, Lapid’s latest is an admonition of almost shocking import, an increasingly rare example of modern art speaking truth to power. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 23, 2025
The result is bound to offend on a wide scale, but also exhilarate with its sheer rage and ebullient aggression. Not for the faint-hearted, and certainly not for fans of Israel’s political status quo, Yes promises to stir very heated debate. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2025
With icy provocation, Israel’s ruling classes are presented as decadent and indifferent to the slaughter and suffering of Gaza. But the film is also in some ways a sympathetic study of a people haunted by the antisemitic butchery of 7 October. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 23, 2025
Yes may be purposely over-the-top and unsettling to watch — at two and a half hours, it won’t win over audiences looking for light arthouse fare — but Lapid is trying to show us that it’s hardly an exaggeration of the truth, or at least his own truth about his homeland. Read full review
78
TheWrapBen CrollJun 4, 2025
Yes is a tortured film, from a tortured artist, about a tortured man, meant to torture us with a kaleidoscope of anguish and a coterie of grotesques. Formally, the film nearly bursts at the seams, as Lapid’s camera spins fast and frantic and out-of-control, with the color contrast and soundtrack turned all-the-way up, keeping the film forever on assault mode. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubAnna McKibbinMar 26, 2026
Lapid’s garish maximalism will surely isolate some filmgoers, but the satire of Yes! works best when it’s fearless—unbothered by the genocidal regime it captures. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineEli FriedbergMar 24, 2026
Nadav Lapid’s film locates a dire spiritual crisis facing the nation of his birth. Read full review
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