Incitement

A chilling portrait of how fanaticism can grow and be enabled, this is a matter-of-fact film that moves with an awful inexorability toward its foregone conclusion.

Incitement is an extremely interesting film because of the story it tells, and is altogether watchable-but it's rather lacking in lightness, humor, or grace.

Director/co-screenwriter Yaron Zilberman deftly blends archival footage with scenes of Yigal becoming increasingly committed to murdering the Prime Minister.

"Incitement" grabs a third rail and holds on tight.

Admirably, Yaron Zilberman's film focuses on the cyclical nature of violence in a decades-old conflict.

An assassin's actions can never be thoroughly explained, but this ragged, powerful film cogently indicts the dark, repressive voices in any society who can set the stage for violence.

The movie is not intended to sway people in one way or the other, politically or religiously. Instead, it is a wake-up call about being more diligent about warning signs that show how someone can turn from being a hate-talking extremist into a murderer.

Amir is portrayed with such great humanity by Yehuda Nahari, who creates a character that is sincere, charming, and yet increasingly frightening.

Zilberman creates something of a slow burn over the course of the film's two hours, making its final moments all the more dramatic.

[T]he screenplay ... is deft in the way it evades any simple explanation for the man's transformation into a zealot and a murderer.