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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreMovies about assassins (“Nine Hours to Rama,” “The Gandhi Murder”) rarely get this deeply into the life and conditions that inspire a political murder. “Incitement,” which swept last year’s Israeli Academy Awards and was Israel’s entry as “Best International Feature” for Hollywood’s Oscars, manages to be both thorough, damning and fraught throughout.
- 80The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergPotently, Incitement depicts Amir as just one member of a self-reinforcing fringe.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberA rare look into the mind of an assassin, Incitement provokes and disturbs.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA chilling portrait of how fanaticism can grow and be enabled, this is a matter-of-fact film that moves with an awful inexorability toward its foregone conclusion.
- 75Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownAdmirably, Yaron Zilberman’s film focuses on the cyclical nature of violence in a decades-old conflict.
- 75RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.comThe extreme, sharply divisive, partisan language might have seemed a world away to us if we had seen it 25 years ago. Now, it seems chillingly close.
- 70VarietyAlissa SimonVarietyAlissa SimonWhile Incitement is a compelling watch, with archival footage neatly woven in, and offers a salutary warning about how easily democracies are endangered, this psychological profile of a political assassin nevertheless falls into a kind of moral trap.