Reviews

• The Band's Visit has not provided any of the narrative payoffs we might have expected, but has provided something more valuable: An interlude involving two "enemies," Arabs and Israelis, that shows them both as only ordinary people with ordinary hopes, lives and disappointments. It has also shown us two souls with rare beauty.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  29 November 2012

• A lovely, smart and beautifully understated film.

  - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  29 November 2012

• Something marvelous happens as the filmmaker, in his first feature, expertly metes out small scenes of communication between people taught, for generations, to be wary of one another: This Band swings with the rhythms of hope.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  29 November 2012

• It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over.

  Ty Burr - The Boston Globe
  
  29 November 2012

• Both sweet-natured and sharply pointed, a film whose poignant, emotional effects and subtle acting sneak up on you.

  Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
  
  29 November 2012