Metacritic reviews

Though Kippur seems a creature radically different -- more nakedly autobiographical, more naturalistic, more forgiving -- from Gitai's highly conceptual and stylized body of work, there are clear thematic continuities.

A classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective.

A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.

Intense, autobiographically based drama.

Perhaps more than any war film in recent memory, Kippur is about the actual work of combat.

At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.

Shot mostly with a hand-held camera and in the gray hues you expect from the gruesome landscape, Kippur is highly sophisticated in its action scenes.

A cumulatively devastating and visceral insight into the horrors of war.

At more than two hours, Kippur is something of an ordeal.

Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.