Menashe's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
"With its intimate focus, 'Menashe' avoids indicting the strict logic that stifles its anti-hero?s individuality (though secular viewers can reach their own conclusions). Instead, it succeeds at showing how his challenges are more universal than judgmental viewers might think."
The Wrap
"'Menashe' is a warm, relatable and tender tale about parental love, religion and belonging, told humanely and with vivid authenticity"
Entertainment Weekly
"The film (shot mostly in Yiddish) has an unpolished intimacy, peeling back the surface exoticism of a cloistered faith to reveal the poignantly ordinary struggle of being an imperfect person in the world"
Variety
"Though the fate of his journey isn?t terribly well communicated, it?s a privilege to have observed Menashe?s world from the inside"
The Hollywood Reporter
"Joshua Z. Weinstein's charming 'Menashe' immerses us in an authentic environment of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and makes it relatable by weaving a sweet story familiar in its general contours, of a single father struggling to hold on to the son he loves"
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote