90
Metascore
20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe acting, especially from Menash Noy as an ineffectual attorney, is phenomenal, resulting in a feminist knockout told in inverse.
- All the performers are superb, though as the title suggests, this is Viviane’s show, and Ronit makes for an exceptional martyr (she gets a Passion Of Joan Of Arc-worthy close-up or two) who never loses her very human shadings.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinIt’s an altogether strange but astonishing work of craftsmanship.
- 90VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergThe beautifully modulated script, ripe with moments of liberating humor, builds to a crescendo of indignation, allowing Elkabetz several cathartic outbursts, but they’re no more riveting than the actress’ silences.
- 90Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsRonit's remarkable sensitivity makes Gett a tough but essential melodrama.
- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe brilliance of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem is that, without a shift in tone, the film begins to seem like a tragedy populated by clowns, its males clinging to ancient laws to compensate for feebleness of character.
- 90Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyThe tragedy here is not a single story but that a process so inequitable and so inane continues in a place that is considered to be enlightened. Gett, in moving and infuriating ways, exposes a very bleak corner of that world.
- 88Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSlant MagazineElise NakhnikianThe courtroom's cramped, near-featureless air of bureaucratic stagnation becomes oppressive even for the audience, making it easy to identify with Viviane's growing hunger for freedom.
- 88New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmeAs Viviane, Elkabetz is fascinating, wielding an incredible variety of contemptuous looks.
- 80The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayThe Elkabetzes don’t need the audience to have any firsthand experience of what Viviane and Elisha are actually like at home. Gett works better if the viewer has to puzzle out the truth from testimony, asides, and outbursts.