Yonatan Shiray plays a young Israeli soldier in Foxtrot. The characters in the films of Samuel Maoz are all trapped in one way or another. His 2009 drama, Lebanon, was a blistering critique of ...

Actor Lior Ashkenazi as Michael Feldman (third from left) is stunned when he is informed that his soldier son Jonathan has been killed. Photos by Giora Bejach, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics The ...

Samuel Maoz’s Israeli drama “Foxtrot” is willfully confusing, emotionally chaotic, and occasionally anarchic. It makes complete sense from one angle, but no sense at all from another. In other words, ...

A devastating sense of cruel futility drives Samuel Maoz’s daring film, honing in on parents' grief after their soldier son has been killed. Each of the three parts is stylistically and tonally ...

A few years ago, Israeli director Samuel Maoz had a scare to end all scares. Maoz’s teenage daughter was prone to waking up late and relying on parental largesse to get to school. So he decided to ...

Foxtrot is Israel's most celebrated film of the year — and its most controversial. It tells the story of one family grappling with the loss of their son at war. But it's also a searing critique of a ...

The characters in the films of Samuel Maoz are all trapped in one way or another. His 2009 drama, Lebanon, was a blistering critique of Israel's 1982 invasion of its northern neighbor and an ...

A devastating sense of cruel futility drives Samuel Maoz’s daring film, honing in on parents' grief after their soldier son has been killed. Within the first minute, the fatal knock on the door ...

“Lebanon” director Samuel Maoz went in a risky direction by making a film as different and daring as “Foxtrot,” and his boldness pays off in ways that make one reach for superlatives. Not content to ...