Clotilde Chinnici
Loud and Clear Reviews
Sep 14, 2024
3/5
While it is undoubtedly narratively flawed, June Zero is a fascinating film for the questions and issues it evokes, and the way Jake Paltrow decides to deal with them on screen.
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Danielle Solzman
Solzy at the Movies
Aug 14, 2024
4/5
When all is said and done, June Zero portrays a historic period in Israel in a way that's different from the history books.
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Sarah Boslaugh
TheArtsStl
Aug 13, 2024
6/10
June Zero is an unusual film based on an interesting idea that it doesn’t quite know how to carry out.
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Robert Denerstein
Denerstein Unleashed
Jul 18, 2024
Paltrow's movie unsettles, never shrinking from complexity as it details how a major trial impacted the lives of ordinary Israelis.
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Robin Holabird
Robin Holabird
Jul 15, 2024
Finding an approach that dares to be different, June Zero makes a worthy entrance into the realm of Holocaust related films.
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Sarah Vincent
Sarah G Vincent Views
Jul 14, 2024
Paltrow deserves credit for coming up with an original idea: using Eichmann as an entry point to focus on ordinary people in extraordinary times, hash out the intersectional identities of each character and unofficially layout the inherent complications
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Lael Loewenstein
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jul 13, 2024
The parts are more impactful than the whole... It doesn't completely lend itself to coherence, but there are elements that are very potent.
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Andy Klein
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jul 13, 2024
I found this enjoyable but kind of grim.
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Tim Appelo
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jul 12, 2024
3/5
The parts don’t quite cohere, but they resonate, and it makes you think.
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Stephanie Malone
Morbidly Beautiful
Jul 11, 2024
3.5/5
It is a challenging and provoking look at how the fabric of history is woven, with monumental events shaped by ordinary people. It’s difficult not to appreciate Paltrow’s choice to take the road less taken in his film of weighty ethical considerations.
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Chris Ludovici
The Spool
Jul 10, 2024
All of these stories are about the contradictions inherent in being alive and how we can simultaneously be a part of something and separate from it.
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Paz O'Farrell
ScreenAnarchy
Jul 8, 2024
This is a good movie, objectively. The shots are creative, the actors talented, the story heavy. ... Director Jake Paltrow ... chose to make this beautiful movie now. Never again, and yet.
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Jeff Mitchell
Phoenix Film Festival
Jul 8, 2024
2.5/4
'June Zero' has value and shares unique perspectives.
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Steven Prokopy
Third Coast Review
Jul 6, 2024
3/4
The issues in this powerful film are complex, but for those involved, the answers are as clear as they are different.
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Neely Swanson
Beverly Hills Courier
Jul 5, 2024
A thoughtful, multilayered movie about the myriad actions leading up to and ending with Albert Eichmann’s execution and the disposal of his body between May 31 and June 1, 1962. Just when you think it’s one thing, it becomes something else.
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Amy Nicholson
Washington Post
Jul 5, 2024
There’s a bit of vengeful comedy when the cinematographer Yaron Scharf introduces Eichmann feet first on the toilet over the sounds of Beethoven’s “Pathétique.”
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Andrew Parker
The Gate
Jul 5, 2024
5/10
This collapse in focus and desire to abandon course mid-stream sinks Paltrow’s film so much that one wishes June Zero had been a series of stand alone shorts rather than a single feature. When strung together, it just doesn’t work.
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Bob Strauss
San Francisco Chronicle
Jul 3, 2024
3/4
Though each of the plotlines in “June Zero” stir up ethical questions, its primary approach is to look at people living their lives while an extraordinary event comes to its climax. That leaves the movie open to multiple, marvelous interpretations...
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Liam Lacey
Original Cin
Jul 2, 2024
B-
An uneven three-part structure weakens the impact of Jake Paltrow’s portrait of Israel during the epochal 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
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Jesse Doppelt
Spectrum Culture
Jul 2, 2024
June Zero sheds light on how retribution was sought in one of the largest injustices in human history, framing the story around a young boy whose life became entangled in history.
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