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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAfter its slow start, Minyan becomes progressively more absorbing, its gritty visuals conveying soulful intimacy, accented with occasional understated touches of wry humor.
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeLevine’s an emerging talent known only to theater audiences at the moment, owing to his dual roles in Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance,” although Minyan makes clear that we are dealing with a performer of uncommon gifts.
- 70The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe film allows its societies to speak through gestures, whether it is the passing of personal possessions after a death or the brush of bodies behind a bar, and its portrait of both Jewishness and queerness is richer for it.
- 70Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarLos Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarWith its numerous supporting characters, many unfortunately embodied through mannered acting, Steel’s picture spins around Levine’s superb turn of tender sensuality and suppressed rage seeking catharsis in the body of another.
- 60TheWrapDan CallahanTheWrapDan CallahanThere is enough here in the first hour to make this memory piece worthwhile, and Levine is clearly someone worth watching and following.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawSteel brings a very distinctive kind of control and restraint to his film, both in terms of its subdued colour palette and an emotional language which despite explicit scenes of both sex and homophobic tension and paranoia, has something opaque and elliptical about it.
- 33The PlaylistJonathan ChristianThe PlaylistJonathan ChristianThe meandering narrative flow leapfrogs without any sense of rhythm, almost as if the collection of scenes was augmented by a haywire randomizer.