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Senesh was a budding writer, and her poems and diary entries add flavor to an already dramatic tale in Roberta Grossman's Blessed Is the Match.Full Review

Dennis Harvey
Variety

A limited amount of original footage -- awkwardly enhanced with reenactments -- gives the film a somewhat narrow focus. But in a way, the dry tone fits.Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

An ungainly hybrid of straight-up documentary and ingenuous reenactment.Full Review

Village Voice

The title is drawn from a verse Hannah wrote just before she was captured -- and that impulse is enough to sustain audience interest.Full Review

Bob Mondello
NPR

Because Senesh died so young, it's hard to fill out a film of nearly 90 minutes that claims her as the subject, so director Grossman has resorted to using newsreel footage as well as re-creations, which, though discreet, add nothing special to the proceedings.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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