Concerned Citizen

critic Reviews

, 94% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Manuel BetancourtVariety
    With its piercing, probing final moments, which turn self-flagellating into thorny cathartic territory, Haguel has crafted an intimate portrait of privilege that’s as damning as it is discomfiting.
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    Noel MurrayLos Angeles Times
    Concerned Citizen is light on plot but filled with insight into what people expect of themselves and their peers.
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    Randy MyersSan Jose Mercury News
    This is satire served scalding hot, and in the end those living on the edge are the ones most often burnt to a crisp.
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    Ben KenigsbergNew York Times
    Haguel builds this brief but densely structured film in an interestingly modular, rhythmic way, thanks to a percussive score by Zoe Polanski and occasional, abrupt cuts to black following key scenes.
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    Todd JorgensonCinemalogue
    Examining familiar themes of gentrification and subconscious bias through a fresh sociocultural lens, this modest Israeli drama finds compassion in confronting volatile issues of race and privilege.
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    André HerefordMetro Weekly (Washington, DC)
    Idan Haguel's dryly funny 'Concerned Citizen' tests a self-described liberal, gay Israeli's principles under pressure.
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    Nora Lee MandelMaven's Nest
    A biting burrow into the challenged conscience of a gay couple in gentrifying South Tel Aviv. Whatever their identity, everyone is presented as having complex forces on them and compromised decisions to make.
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  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Zachary GoldkindIn Review Online
    Such troubled perspective only derives from a failed schema, wherein secondary characters are positioned either as pawns with no discernible interiority or plot beats serving only to contextualize our protagonist.
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    Rubén RosarioMiamiArtZine
    First-world problems meet multicultural angst in his hot little number...
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    Avi OfferNYC Movie Guru
    A poignant and captivating psychological character study.
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