Films

Panelists from the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival speak onstage. (Derek White/Getty Images)

February 26, 2026, 12:45 pm

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologizes for selecting anti-Zionist to judge human rights films

The festival said it could not remove the panelist because judging was already underway.

By Jackie Hajdenberg

TIFF Lightbox is the headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival. (Credit: Raysonho via Wikimedia Commons)

August 14, 2025, 1:59 pm

Toronto film festival backtracks after pulling Oct. 7 documentary

The movie focuses on IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) Noam Tibon, who saved his family, including his two granddaughters, from the Hamas massacre.

By JNS Staff

David Corenswet in “Superman” (Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery via The Times of Israel)

July 14, 2025, 8:25 am

The new Superman movie doesn’t fly in the face of convention – and that’s a good thing

While it might vaguely touch on politics, the latest film featuring the Big Blue Boy Scout is light, clever and lands at just the right moment when it hits US theaters July 11

By Jordan Hoffman

Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, January 12, 2009. (Jigsaw Pictures via The Times of Israel)

September 10, 2024, 9:17 am

Revealing leaked police footage, new film aims brutal lens at Netanyahu amid war

"The Bibi Files," a scathing documentary, incorporates material from corruption probe to present sobering insight into the prime minister’s actions and character

By Robert Sarner

Leslie Howard as Sir Percy Blakeney with Merle Oberon as Lady Blakeney in “The Scarlet Pimpernel” (1934)
(Tunbridge photo for London Films, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

August 13, 2024, 6:27 pm

Did ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ inspire Raoul Wallenberg’s Holocaust heroism?

Wallenberg saw an anti-Nazi remake about the superhero with a double life. ‘Pimpernel’ also inspired Stan Lee and Larry David

By Beth Harpaz

March 20, 2024, 4:47 pm

Canadian Jewish federation ‘dismayed’ by theater’s decision to postpone Jewish film festival over security fears

“This decision, made in response to a few complaints and threatening emails objecting to our festival’s lineup, including films from Israel, is profoundly disappointing."

By Andrew Lapin

December 29, 2023, 10:52 am

Watching Christmas movies in Jerusalem

The feel-good predictability on screen provides an interlude of comfort that soothes the searing reality of current events

By Anne Gordon

Bradley Cooper is shown as Leonard Bernstein in the trailer for Netflix’s “Maestro.” (Screenshot from YouTube)

December 14, 2023, 9:42 pm

Bernstein, Oppenheimer and Barbie lead off a Jew-ish list of Golden Globe nominees

The awards show is big on Jewish titans who shaped the world, in music, plastic and nuclear physics

By PJ Grisar

Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler in a scene from the Netflix film 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.' (Scott Yamano/Netflix, via The Times of Israel)

August 23, 2023, 11:41 am

‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ is an endearing Sandler family affair

Dropping this Friday, a new Netflix film starring Adam Sandler alongside his wife and daughters puts Jewish ritual front and center in a sweet coming-of-age tale laced with humor

By Amy Spiro

August 17, 2023, 10:23 am

Critics upset by Bradley Cooper’s elongated nose as Leonard Bernstein in ‘Maestro’

Many Jews argued that the appendage plays into stereotypes about Jewish facial features.

By Jacob Gurvis

Jeremy Jordan as Neil Bogart in “Spinning Gold” (Photo courtesy of Hero Entertainment Group)

April 14, 2023, 8:06 am

‘Spinning Gold’ departs from Hollywood stereotypes about Jewish music producers

Movie tells the real-life story of Neil Bogart, the founder of Casablanca Records and a top music executive of the 1970s.

By Stephen Silver

Still from “Repairing the World: Stories from The Tree of Life”

March 16, 2023, 4:26 pm

Point Park hosts free screening of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting documentary

Screening is Monday, March 27, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

By Toby Tabachnick

Jamie Lee Curtis accepts her first Oscar (Screenshot)

March 15, 2023, 12:50 pm

‘Fabelmans’ flops at the Oscars, but Hollywood’s Jewish history gets a nod

Veteran actress Jamie Lee Curtis picked up her first-ever Oscar, for “Everything Everywhere All at Once."

By Andrew Lapin

Topol as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." (Photo by Joan Marcus)

March 9, 2023, 12:34 pm

Chaim Topol dies at 87

Israeli actor who played Tevye in 1971 ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ film

By Philissa Cramer

Paul Rudd and Kathryn Newton in a still from 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.' (Courtesy of Marvel via The Times of Israel)

February 17, 2023, 11:13 am

Mighty mensch Paul Rudd makes largely disappointing ‘Ant-Man’ a little more fun

Great performances by all-star actors including Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer can’t save Marvel’s latest release from soulless visuals and a languid plot.

By Jordan Hoffman