Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

54%

Rotten Tomatoes: 13 reviews

Neil Genzlinger New York Times (Top Critic)

60

[It] serves up its material with an excess of treacly music and an overabundance of glowing reminiscences. This has the odd effect of making his story less powerful than it actually is.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Stephanie Merry Washington Post (Top Critic)

63

This was a man who needed no help standing out from the crowd.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Loren King Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

A straightforward documentary that uses Yoni's own words - in the form of his moving, eloquent letters and poems - to create a searing portrait of his short but meaningful life.
Full Review » 12 months ago
Ernest Hardy Village Voice (Top Critic)

It is pure hagiography.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

You may prefer spending your money on the book.
Full Review » 10 months ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

Doesn't give much more than a cursory sense of what Yonathan Netanyahu was like as a person.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Phil Hall Film Threat

70

A moving tribute to an Israeli military hero.
Full Review » 3 months ago
Peter Keough Boston Phoenix

63

For the most part, documentarians Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot do this potent story justice.
Full Review » 12 months ago
Roger Moore McClatchy-Tribune News Service

50

As biographies go, this one's pretty close to hagiography - painting in personal details, glossing over the chinks in his armor and in Israeli history.
Full Review » 12 months ago
Rafer Guzman Newsday

50

Never explains why, exactly, Israel embraced this dead soldier so tightly.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Chuck Bowen Slant Magazine

63

The documentary is briskly paced, often compelling, but a little soft, as it succumbs to hero worship.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Harvey S. Karten Compuserve

75

Stirring doc about one of Israel's great heroes, known particularly for rescuing hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Nell Minow Beliefnet

67

Thoughtful and stirring.
Full Review » 1 year ago