An Israeli director debuts with a film shot in a kibbutz ravaged by October 7
Keren Nechmad's film Kissufim was shot three years ago before the kibbutz became the site of a Hamas massacre
The Critic review: ‘acidic revenge plot in 1930s London’
Ian McKellen’s stone-faced critic is a delicious embodiment of cruelty and wit
Vogue model and war journalist Lee Miller’s Jewish friends and lovers
A film released this week tracks her astonishing story – and the cast of high-profile Jews who played crucial roles in building her career
Firebrand review: ‘Jude Law’s Henry VIII’
The actor is on terrifying form in this film which uses poetic licence to excellent effect
Blink Twice review: ‘men are the enemy of women’
Revenge is best served on a toxic male tycoon’s private island in this film which starts as a rom-com but which becomes a thriller
Filming a Jewish nonprofit workplace comedy
Film student Elizabeth Leff wrote and directed the comedy short Nonprofit based on her experience working for a Jewish nonprofit in Washington DC
The Jewish rom-com that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about platonic love
I talk to writer-director Nathan Silver about his new film Between the Temples, featuring a cantor who’s losing his voice and faith until his old teacher saves him
Between the Temples review: ‘excruciating in the best way’
This comedy is based on the kind of ineffectual and hapless Jew that gentiles have long liked most, but it’s Jewish plea to live life to the full is one we can all get behind
How Jewish is Justin Baldoni?
The actor was raised in an interfaith household, and has been on pilgrimage to Israel
Widow Cliquot review: ‘more prosecco than champagne’
Cliquot’s corporate story has been deemed big screen fare so I wish the film had dived into the mysterious alchemy of how the sparkling wine is made
‘The Holdovers’ Dominic Sessa to star in Anthony Bourdain biopic
Matt Johnson will direct the feature film about the late writer and chef, whose mother was Jewish
Harold and the Purple Crayon review: ‘a witless thing’
Deadpool & Wolverine, review: There’s hope for Marvel yet
First trailer for Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet released
Timothée Chalamet stars as the legendary Jewish American folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
Is When Harry Met Sally the perfect non-Jewish Jewish film?
In the 35 years since the film came out, it’s only got more Jewish with age
Film review: Twisters, ‘A spectacle but as memorable as a breeze’
After George Clooney’s Perfect Storm and 1996’s Twister, here is yet another tornado movie
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