The Human Resources Manager 2010

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: A disappointingly shallow story in which only the dead are named, and the living are reduced to stereotypes. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Yehoshua and Riklis are sometimes better at setting things up than following through, but the result suggests a novelistic density. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: "Human Resources Manager" adroitly mixes moving personal drama, absurdist comedy and site-specific cultural situations. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: An enjoyable mix of tragedy and comedy. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Ivanir's acting is the key - he portrays the transition without sentimentalizing his character. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A cross-cultural shaggy-dog story along the lines of Bill Forsyth's "Local Hero." Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Even with incidents involving drunken locals, an underground bunker and a decommissioned tank, the film doesn't build the comic momentum of good intentions hurtling downhill in a strange land. Read more

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Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Tender irony and dark humor abound in Israeli director Eran Riklis's latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning compassion. Read more

Rachel Saslow, Washington Post: If director Eran Riklis's intention is to show the blossoming humanity, so to speak, of a human resources manager, the transformation is much too subtle to work. Read more