Critic Reviews
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TV Guide Ken Fox
This is a brave, groundbreaking film.
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
While the compiled testimony is strong, some larger context is missing.
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
It's that dilemma -- a commitment to Orthodox life, the refusal to deny one's sexuality and the fear of expulsion once that sexuality is revealed -- that director Sandi Simcha DuBowski illustrates so powerfully.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
An unexpectedly moving family portrait of cousins we didn't know we had.
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Chicago Tribune Loren King
The rigidity of most of the rabbis interviewed in the film is balanced by the presence of openly gay Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg, who offers a more liberal, but no less scholarly, interpretation of the Torah.
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Boston Globe
Examines this dilemma with compassion and sensitivity.
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New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Strangely unengaging.
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Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Dubowski's movie is an act of hope that the basic human needs of the gay Orthodox will someday be reconciled with their faith.
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Film Threat
Obviously the director has her point of view on the subject and the film is thusly slanted, but this bias, while good for the cause, may not be best suited for thorough documentary filmmaking.
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New York Post Jonathan Foreman
It's unfortunate that the people DuBowski profiles tend to be self-indulgent or otherwise unappealing. It's still more unfortunate that the film focuses more on relatively easy issues of acceptance.
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