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Nov 21, 2024
100
Ultimately, Sabbath Queen isn’t interested in the headline-grabbing macro conflicts that embroil Jews globally, but the internal culture wars within Judaism itself: fascistic fundamentalism versus reformist progressivism; dominant cishet masculinity versus burgeoning feminine and gender nonconforming voices; hallowed bloodlines versus chosen family. It is one of the best films I’ve seen this year.
Nov 21, 2024
90
[A] fascinating look at the act of questioning yourself and your family, your surroundings and your decisions.
Jan 9, 2025
90
Sabbath Queen constantly finds ways to renew our interest throughout its 105 minutes and does so with great intelligence and respect.
Nov 21, 2024
75
DuBowski’s activist portrait Sabbath Queen is overwhelmingly ambitious in its time-spanning, as searching and curious as its primary subject. We don’t leave the movie with a firm sense of who Amichai is beyond his religious backdrop, but I think that’s the point: Who he is as a person has become muddled and tangled up with the one he’s supposed to represent.
Nov 21, 2024
70
This fast-paced, well-shot doc does place its finger on the quickening pulse of an ever-wider gap between liberalizing Western social values and the Orthodox sphere that believes they are antithetical to Judaism. It’s a painful divide, but one that Sabbath Queen helps keep at least partly in the realm of civil argument.
Nov 21, 2024
67
There’s too much good here that doesn’t deserve to be overlooked, and this is where the film misses the mark.