Viral: Anti-Semitism in Four Mutations

A riveting study, if one notably unbalanced with regard to one country.

The documentary is eye-opening and very much worth seeing, even though it can't help but be disheartening.

As a guide through this hellscape, Goldberg is calm, rational, humane. At least someone is. Someone has to be.

Though it is too glib at moments, "Viral" scores points with examples that underscore the seriousness of the situations it depicts.

I have no doubt that there is an important and eye-opening film to be made of this footage, though the subjects it explores require a deeper dive.

By sidelining historical analysis, the film denies its audience the best defense against distortion, a rational necessity when interpreting a conversation that often seems to happen in code.

The excellent documentary Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations takes the concept that prejudice against Jews is like a viral infection that keeps spreading, and the movie focuses on four mutations in particular.

Given the significant weight of each act, there's hardly enough time to provide a fully-fledged look at the events and people that have been, or are, victims or culprits of antisemitism.

Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutation is timely and it is vital, and it is a documentary that not only a community needs, but all of us do.

Uneven but undeniably powerful documentary about hate.