Yes (2025)

Horrified by the country of his birth and heavy with the weight of its sins, Nadav Lapid has created modern cinema’s most splenetic filmography by fighting his Israeliness as if it were an incurable virus infecting his body of work. 2019’s eruptive “Synonyms” was a…

davidehrlich

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NEgdz

This starts out with the logos of a bunch of Israel national film funds which really does nothing to prepare you for the film which unambiguously portrays Israel as the most evil country in the world, which induces schizophrenia from its many moral contradictions for any…

Matt chan

Jesus. I’m not one for exuberant praise, but YES is probably the most subversive satire of recent memory.

Robert Daniels

YES! is an audacious & incautious mess of a film from Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, but out of that chaos emerges an endlessly unpredictable, entertaining, and searing political satire & criticism on Israel & the current situation in Gaza. Often abrasive, provocative, and…

Matt Neglia

"We should leave. When we see Gaza, Gaza sees us." A twisted musical soaked in the blood that the state where it comes from supports. An absolutely sick satire, from a sick mind, that was created in a sick country. Lapid's latest feature, filmed in israel during the war,…

Anastasia ✄

Interminable film qui se pare des attraits plastiques de la subversion pour construire son propre espace filmique, sans pour autant que ses excès ne puissent vraiment être admis comme critique. L'expérimental m'interpelle, et Lapid semble faire de la saturation de bruits,…

Sam292929

Dancing around death. Yes is an examination of the darkness within Israeli society. It is a satire told with maximalist stylings and an unsubtle approach. The opening scene has a man drown in a party only to get up and dance. Yes depicts Israel as a party nation, full of…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

“The second thing, during the war, for instance, Israeli TV channels were broadcasting propaganda disguised as news and consciously avoided showing Israeli’s images from Gaza. So in a way, the only people who weren’t exposed to the horror of Gaza were the ones who were…

Brandon Streussnig