Fresh
The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Overview
A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Like no fish-out-of-water film in recent memory, it leaves you with the hope that these fish will find their way back to water, and maybe learn to share that puddle before the desert dries it up entirely.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Kolirin has a fine sense of where to place the camera and when to cut between shots for maximum comic effect.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
A quiet, sympathetic film about the loneliness that surrounds us.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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