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  5. Golda Movie Review (2023)

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  6. Golda’s Balcony

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  1. 'Golda' Review: Chain-Smoking Through the Guilt

    Golda. Rated PG-13 for pervasive smoking. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. In theaters. A correction was made on. Aug. 31, 2023. : An earlier version of this review misidentified the historical ...

  2. Golda movie review & film summary (2023)

    August 25, 2023. 3 min read. Helen Mirren gets lost beneath layers of heavy prosthetics and a swirl of incessant cigarette smoke in "Golda.". Given that she's one of the greatest actresses of her time, Mirren naturally finds ways to reveal glimmers of humanity in her portrayal of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

  3. 'Golda' Review: Helen Mirren Channels Golda Meir

    Helen Mirren. 'Golda' Review: Helen Mirren Channels Golda Meir in a Tense Dramatization of the Yom Kippur War. Reviewed at Park Ave. Screening Room (Berlin Film Festival), Feb. 17, 2023. MPA ...

  4. Golda

    Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), faced with the potential of Israel's complete ...

  5. 'Golda' review: She wishes she were an Oscar Meir winner

    The movie opens with an on-screen acknowledgment of Israel's 1967-fueled "hubris," a provocative notion that is left to linger and finally fade away at roughly the same moment Golda does ...

  6. Golda

    Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2023. Carla Hay Culture Mix. Golda undercuts its intentions of being a gripping drama of Israeli leader Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War, by ...

  7. Golda (film)

    Golda is a 2023 biographical drama film directed by Guy Nattiv and written by Nicholas Martin. The film depicts the actions of Golda Meir, the 4th Prime Minister of Israel, during the Yom Kippur War.It stars Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin and Liev Schreiber.. It received its world premiere at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival on February 20, 2023. It was released in the United States ...

  8. Golda film review

    This historical drama about the Israeli prime minister, directed by Guy Nattiv ('Skin'), doesn't skimp on period fixtures and makes sure everyone smokes all the time. By Leslie Felperin. February ...

  9. Movie Review: Filmmakers behind biopic 'Golda,' starring Helen Mirren

    Golda Meir was many things — modern Israel's first and only female head of government and a wartime prime minister. And she now she's provided the vehicle for Helen Mirren to try to earn some more acting awards.. The great English actor dons prosthetics and an air of sourness in "Golda" to portray Meir facing two tragedies by fire — leading Israel's counterattack in the 1973 Arab ...

  10. Celebrating a New Narrative: Director Guy Nattiv on Golda

    So, miraculously, two days before shooting the movie, before he got on the plane, before shooting his scenes, he met with 101-year-old Henry Kissinger in his apartment in New York, and they sat for two hours and just spoke and spoke and spoke. And actually, Henry was the one who gave him the line, "In Israel, we read from right to left."

  11. Review

    August 23, 2023 at 9:13 a.m. EDT. (2 stars) Set during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, when Israel faced an existential crisis while under attack by Arab forces led by Egypt and Syria, the docudrama ...

  12. Golda Review

    Helen Mirren stars as Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's biopic. Read the Empire review.

  13. Golda film review

    Word-counts and life are short. That hot potato can go cold without me. But the hoo-ha was surely not the plan of Tel Aviv-born filmmaker Guy Nattiv. Consider it a lesson in living by the sword ...

  14. Golda's Balcony

    Directed by Jeremy Kagan; written by William Gibson, based on his play; director of photography, Jacek Laskus; edited by David Kashevaroff; music by Yuval Ron; produced by Tony Cacciotti. At the ...

  15. Movie review: 'Golda' captures suspense of Yom Kippur War

    While more linear than Oppenheimer, Golda does cut back and forth between events of 1973 and the hearing, in which she has hindsight. On Oct. 5, 1973, the day before Yom Kippur, Meir and her ...

  16. 'Golda' review: Helen Mirren plays it dour in ...

    Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for thematic material and pervasive smoking). Now showing at local theaters. Director Guy Nattiv and writer Nicholas Martin don't have much to say about ...

  17. Golda

    Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), faced with the potential of Israel's complete destruction, must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber), with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough ...

  18. Movie Review: 'Golda'

    Credit: Sean Gleason, Courtesy of Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures. 'Golda' is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Israeli Prime Minister ...

  19. 'Agatha All Along' Review: Toil and Trouble

    This time she puts her new main character — Agatha Harkness, a dangerous witch with a half-century history in Marvel comic books — inside a parody of the grim HBO crime drama "Mare of ...

  20. Golda Review: Helen Mirren Astounds in Tense War Biopic

    Bleecker Street. Helen Mirren astounds as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in a tense dramatization of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, where Egypt and Syria launched a massive surprise attack on Judaism ...

  21. 'Golda' review: Mirren acts through a mask in bad Meir film

    When the movie "Golda" was first announced, it sounded like surefire Oscar gold. But much as Helen Mirren's Golda Meir is caught off-guard by Egypt and Syria's attack on Israel at the ...

  22. 'Golda' Review: Helen Mirren Is Stuck in Stuffy Historical Drama

    Rating: D+. Golda is a tedious historical drama lacking substance and depth, despite Helen Mirren's performance. The film's dialogue, staging, and overall execution are stodgy and unengaging ...

  23. 'Golda' Ending Explained & Film Summary: Is It Based On A True Story?

    As the title of the film suggests, Golda is based on the life of Israel's first and only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir. The film takes into account the tumultuous time of 1973, when the Yom Kippur War broke out. The neighboring Arab countries, Egypt and Syria, gathered their forces and trespassed the Israeli borders from the north and south.

  24. Review: Golda's Helen Mirren gets lost under layers of makeup as Israel

    Starring Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin and Liev Schreiber. Classification N/A; 100 minutes. Opens in theatres Aug. 25. As much of Hollywood races to digitally manipulate the faces of its famous ...