...Gitai masterfully mixes staged scenes with archival footage, which lends a sickening sense of dread to the sequence charting Rabin’s doomed walk toward his van, following a triumphant rally in Tel Aviv.

...the movie is almost literally a trial to watch, demonstrating all the passion and excitement of an unedited C-SPAN broadcast.

A movie with a charge this extreme, and the courtroom scenes that convincingly connect the dots, ought to make for a major international discussion.

...som historielektion har den bäring på varenda arena där populismen sticker fram sitt fula demagogiska tryne.