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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...outstanding... a perfect little piece of Talmud, full of text, commentary, and colorful argument." (Read the full review...) 86 words, 03/09/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of the smartest and most merciless comedies to come along in a while.... Perfect." (Read the full review...) 855 words, 03/16/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...a piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. Really, the stakes could hardly be higher." (Read the full review...) 1,005 words, 03/09/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...as wise and complex as its Oscar nomination (for Best Foreign Language Film) suggests.... acutely observant..." (Read the full review...) 138 words, 03/09/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...brainy, bravura filmmaking of the highest level.... Amusing and disturbing in equal measure... does more than ask the provocative question 'what is more important than truth,' it attempts to answer it as well." (Read the full review...) 946 words, 03/16/12 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...spins around in a frantic and ungainly whimsy in its early stages... but once it calms down and stops trying to be funny, it turns into a thoughtful and intriguing drama." (Read the full review...) 383 words, 03/09/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Many people will be vexed by 'Footnote' and its poker-faced strategy long before the climax. The humor isn't for everyone. I've seen the film twice, gladly, and I can't wait to see what Cedar comes up with next." (Read the full review...) 753 words, 03/16/12 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "Hilarious may not be the right word... a droll, deadpan satire... An Israeli cousin to 'Election' that slyly sends up professional ambition, ethics and jealousy." (Read the full review...) 329 words, 03/30/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of the smartest and most merciless comedies to come along in a while.... Perfect." (Read the full review...) 855 words, 03/16/12 Karina Longworth, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Cedar's rigorous formal achievement is above reproach but, despite its increasingly operatic score, emotionally distant.... something to respect and admire but remains cold and unknowable." (Read the full review...) 441 words, 03/07/12 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Emotions run so hot that if it weren't for Amit Poznansky's jaunty score, and the film's Pythonesque visual flourishes, we could forget at times that this is a comedy." (Read the full review...) 530 words, 03/23/12 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "Israeli-born, New York-educated Joseph Cedar ('Beaufort') won the Cannes screenwriting prize for his mordant script about mountains, mole-hills and the popular biblical theme of mean fathers and rebellious sons." (Read the full review...) 136 words, 09/07/11 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Director Joseph Cedar's depiction of petty politicking boasts a sly, knowing wit... throughout, his sense of familial resentment could scarcely be more acute." (Read the full review...) 197 words, 11/03/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums' got the balance of observation and commentary exactly right; Cedar's 'Footnote' gets it wrong." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 03/22/12
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Bar-Aba and Ashkenazi do exceptional work.... Most footnotes don't get a passing glance, but this one proves worthy of careful study." (Read the full review...) 482 words, 03/23/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a film about the nature of truth, about sacrifice, hubris, hypocrisy. It's nothing short of brilliant." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 03/30/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "The film darkens throughout, its sprightly musical score falling away and the situation curdling into bitterness without catharsis." (Read the full review...) 155 words, 03/30/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...fantastic... Shlomo Bar-Aba and Lior Ashkenazi give terrific performances... The film is uncomfortable and hilarious, in about equal measure." (Read the full review...) 597 words, 03/23/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the nut of the movie is meat for a tragic farce. But you need a steady tone to pull that off, and it's elusive here." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 03/23/12 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar imbues his tale of academic maneuvering, misunderstanding and mystery with the zest of passion and the zing of intrigue." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 03/23/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...darkly comedic... a story of jealousy and rivalry, of what can happen when a son follows in his father's footsteps and makes those footsteps bigger, or at least easier to walk in." (Read the full review...) 401 words, 04/06/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a bright, smart and funny movie that evinces a real feel not only for the daily work of scholars... a fine, clever film." (Read the full review...) 168 words, 02/17/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...faintly comic... while some will chuckle at the characters' vanity, others will find it painful." (Read the full review...) 336 words, 04/13/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...intriguing... deals with ambition, isolation, the dangers of too much success and the inevitable gap between generations." (Read the full review...) 320 words, 04/13/12
Karina Longworth, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Cedar's rigorous formal achievement is above reproach but, despite its increasingly operatic score, emotionally distant.... something to respect and admire but remains cold and unknowable." (Read the full review...) 441 words, 03/07/12 Ann Lewinson, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...with so many loose threads you could take it in for shatnez testing. Comic Bar Aba's one-dimensional stone face, tightly framed in the manner of deadpan Scandinavian comedies, grows monotonous..." (Read the full review...) 159 words, 03/22/12 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Director Joseph Cedar's depiction of petty politicking boasts a sly, knowing wit... throughout, his sense of familial resentment could scarcely be more acute." (Read the full review...) 197 words, 11/03/11 Alison Willmore, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the love, jealousy, and stubborn pride of the relationship between Ashkenazi and Bar-Aba is the heart of the film, and that makes the deliberately uncertain note of the ending particularly frustrating." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 03/08/12 Elena Razlogova, Pop Matters: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a traditional film in more senses than one (at Cannes, the crew refused limousines and walked to the evening screening in the rain to observe the Sabbath)." (Read the full review...) 358 words, 05/18/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "What Cedar captures here is the way a father and son can be bound so tightly they almost choke the air out of one another. You can't exactly call it affection; it's that far more complicated thing we call kinship." (Read the full review...) 729 words, 03/07/12 Andrew Schenker, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "A very Jewish comedy about academia, familial bickering, and life as a cosmic joke... a sour, rather unpleasant affair that hinges on acts of Jews behaving badly -- even when they try to do right." (Read the full review...) 694 words, 10/12/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums' got the balance of observation and commentary exactly right; Cedar's 'Footnote' gets it wrong." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 03/22/12
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a wise and playful comedy of intellectual manners... 'Footnote' does function as a character study, an exceptionally rich one." (Read the full review...) 318 words, 03/09/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...a piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. Really, the stakes could hardly be higher." (Read the full review...) 1,005 words, 03/09/12 David Denby, New Yorker: OUTSTANDING "...remarkable... The echoes of this intricately wrought movie go on forever... nothing has exploded on the screen in recent years as violently as that mad quarrel in a tiny room - a room that is Israel itself." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 04/09/12 Mark Jenkins, NPR: EXCELLENT "...as much tragic as comic.... 'Footnote' is no samurai picture, but it does deliver a killer gash to one man's ego." (Read the full review...) 541 words, 03/08/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...brainy, bravura filmmaking of the highest level.... Amusing and disturbing in equal measure... does more than ask the provocative question 'what is more important than truth,' it attempts to answer it as well." (Read the full review...) 946 words, 03/16/12 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...wry, imaginative.... Joseph Cedar, an American-born Israeli filmmaker whose last work was the Oscar-nominated 'Beaufort,' has a genuine gift for atmosphere and dialogue." (Read the full review...) 644 words, 05/20/11
Jay Weissberg, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...sets out to reveal the navel-gazing elements behind the pursuit of arcane knowledge... The script nails academic gobbledygook along with the viciousness of professorial rivalries..." (Read the full review...) 817 words, 05/13/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Intriguing, uneven... makes several crucial miscalculations, beginning with the use of one of the most intrusive and overbearing musical scores in memory." (Read the full review...) 618 words, 05/13/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...brainy, bravura filmmaking of the highest level.... Amusing and disturbing in equal measure... does more than ask the provocative question 'what is more important than truth,' it attempts to answer it as well." (Read the full review...) 946 words, 03/16/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...intelligent, intriguing and complex... the movie asks us to weigh our needs and obligations as sons (and family members) versus needs and duties as individualistic, career-driven professionals." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 08/18/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...a piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. Really, the stakes could hardly be higher." (Read the full review...) 1,005 words, 03/09/12 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a wise and playful comedy of intellectual manners... 'Footnote' does function as a character study, an exceptionally rich one." (Read the full review...) 318 words, 03/09/12
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