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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Time OutS. James SnyderTime OutS. James SnyderDirector Sam Garbarski’s focus occasionally skews narrow, but he does evoke the anxiety of reconciling a strict faith with secular times.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe Rashevski Tango begins and ends with a burial, but the movie teems with cranky life, then heals all rifts with a dance that sets a seal of comically erotic approval on that undying genre, the domestic melodrama.
- 50VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibPicture touchingly conveys the everyday closeness of the Rashevskis, who are wont to tango their troubles away, but spiritual upheavals and tonal shifts feel artificial and strained.
- 50The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIn the end, though, Mr. Garbarski makes no judgments, which leaves this film feeling sweet but light: we already knew that Judaism, like most other religions, is an ever-evolving collage.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe central metaphor of dance, though, is forced, a standard-issue cliché about dancing away problems.