Budrus 2010

Tom Long, Detroit News: This all goes on until Bacha either runs out of budget, patience or film, and ends up cutting to the somewhat positive results. Read more

Mike Hale, New York Times: Engrossing and sometimes inspiring... Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: Documentaries warrant viewpoints, but they should also provide perspective on more than one side of a contentious issue. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Bacha, who worked on the impressive 2004 documentary "Control Room," does well to focus on one tiny town and its leading citizens; "Budrus" is at its best when she keeps the scale small. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Uncertain which approach to use, the filmmakers try a little of everything: sit-down interviews, in-the-moment footage, sentimental close-ups. A patient, on-the-ground approach would mostly have sufficed. But the movie is fascinating anyway. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: What's most gratifying about Budrus is that the film enables us to feel some of the same emotions the participants experienced. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: No one can believe that "Budrus" is showing us the key to peace in the Middle East. But any positive note about this most intractable of conflicts should be savored. Read more

Ella Taylor, Village Voice: The little-told story of a small but growing nonviolent opposition movement among rural West Bank Palestinians gets an airing in Julia Bachas mostly fair-minded documentary. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: For those who despair of ever seeing peace in the Middle East, Budrus offers both sobering and cheering evidence that progress is possible. Read more