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One of Us

2017

Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

Documentary, Self: Chani Getter, Luzer Twersky, Ari Hershkowitz

6.4

1,485

Documentary Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to separate despite threats of retaliation.

	Author	Review
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"Employing intimate, evocative aesthetics to amplify their material’s heart-wrenching power, the filmmakers craft a harrowing portrait of trauma, bravery and insular societal oppression."	POS
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have made their most powerful and complex film (...) Their stories are harrowing (...) Their portraits unfold through sensitive camerawork"	POS
United States	Sam Fragoso The Wrap	"There’s intimacy on screen that other documentaries only dream of creating (...) The perfect balance between informal, fly-on-the-wall chatter, and rigorous, journalistic questioning."	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Each portrait captures the pain of having a life upended."	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"This is complex and often explosive subject matter, and in examining it, the excellent team of Ewing and Grady (...) tread as carefully as they can (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Christopher Gray Slant	"It's incisive in its condemnation of the oppression innate in the social structure of Brooklyn's Hasidic communities (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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