The Human Resources Manager

More than anything, this is an intelligent audience picture, a solid and engrossing piece of old-school filmmaking, both humane and character driven, in which the various protagonists learn something - not too much and not too easily - about the nature of their lives.

An enjoyable mix of tragedy and comedy.

With the stranger in a strange land motif, the movie plays a little bit like the 2007 Israeli dramedy "The Band's Visit" and Liev Shreiber's "Everything Is Illuminated" rolled into one.

It's undeniably humanistic; resourceful and well managed, however, are a different story.

Because we don't know or care much about the characters, this Israeli film never fulfills its potential as either an absurdist comedy or a humane drama.

It serves up a broad humanistic lesson with absurdism and black comedy more sad than barbed.

A disappointingly shallow story in which only the dead are named, and the living are reduced to stereotypes.