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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Boston GlobeLoren KingBoston GlobeLoren KingIt is haunting in its literal and symbolic meanings, which is the powerful, lingering effect of Yellow Asphalt.
- 80VarietyVarietyWith its remarkably intimate look at Israeli Bedouin culture, a subject heretofore little treated, Danny Verete's Yellow Asphalt is a deeply affecting and brutally uncompromising anthology of three unrelated stories.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsMore than the sum of its parts.
- 70The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensThe inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power, as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time.
- 70TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThese three films form a remarkably cohesive whole, both visually and thematically, through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people.
- 63New York PostNew York PostSo lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air.
- 40The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThough it's tempting to praise Verete for having the courage to show the worst of both worlds, only a propagandist could get away with being so reductive; an artist should be held to a higher standard.
- 40Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonDryly cynical; the scenarios pit plump, amoral, industrialized Jews against draconian, wife-beating, tribal Arabs.