Rotten
Screenwriters Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma pull quite a few punches here, making the doctor improbably naive about Israeli-Palestinian tensions so that his transformation seems profound.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Overview
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Director and cast
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86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"The Attack" doesn't force us to pick a side. But it does force us to question our outsiders' hope in conciliation.
Andrew Wagaman, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
Arouses profound questions about fanaticism, cultural identity, and the essential mystery of other people, even those we think we know best.
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Rotten
It's set up as a descent into the heart of darkness, but it ends up playing out in pallid shades of grey.
Adam Nayman, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Imagine a blissful life taken away: Story of an Arab man who's assimilated into Israeli society but finds out that his wife was a suicide bomber. Nothing new here about the conflict, fair portrayal of the sides, thought provoking without solutions.
Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle
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