Contemporary screen depictions of Brooklyn's Hasidic community — for instance Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies or Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us — have tended to raise eyebrows with their meshuggeneh casting of Hollywood recruits like Renee Zellweger and Melanie Griffith, and their sometimes patronizing perspective on the exotic otherness of a mysterious, insular world. On a much smaller, far more satisfying scale, Joshua Z. Weinstein's charming Menashe immerses us in an authentic environment of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and makes it relatable by weaving a sweet story familiar in its general contours, of a single father struggling to hold onto...
- 1/23/2017
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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