Bee Season Critic Reviews

The performance by Flora Cross is haunting in its seriousness. She doesn't act out; she acts in.Read the full review

With the help of clear direction and some excellent acting, especially from Flora Cross in a memorable debut as Eliza, Bee Season is affecting in ways that movies have all but given up trying to be.Read the full review

Based on the captivating novel by Myla Goldberg, Bee Season is evocative and superbly acted.Read the full review

A serious film filled with both great and awkward ideas and made as much from the heart as the head.Read the full review

For a film filled with jagged shards of glass, and sometimes shot kaleidoscopically, through the windows of houses or cars, Bee Season is carefully, almost relentlessly, intended. That said, the script, by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, touches on themes that rarely make it to the big screen.Read the full review

Bee Season answers the question no Talmudic student or fan of "Unfaithful" has thought to ask: What would Richard Gere look like as a learned Jewish scholar and teacher?Read the full review

There's no shortage of material on the screen in Bee Season - it's just not assembled in a satisfying manner.Read the full review

Here the foundation has been miscast. That's M-I-S-C-A-S-T.Read the full review

The attempt to be clever is transparent.Read the full review