User:Coffeeandcrumbs/Tantura (film)

Tantura is a documentary film about the Tantura massacre.

Production
Tantura was directed by Alon Schwarz.

Release
Tantura premiered virtually at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2022.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 93% (based on 28 reviews), with an average rating of 7.8/10; the website's critics consensus reads: "Tantura dives into a man's struggle to reckon with events that some may call means to freedom and others a massacre – the birth story of many, if not all, civilizations." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100 (based on 12 critics), indicating "universal acclaim".

Siddhant Adlakha in IndieWire criticizes the film for avoiding "its most rigorous investigations as soon as they become emotionally thorny", resulting in editing that "is at times haphazard, given how it hops and skips between audio clips, archival footage and present interviews before letting each one resonate; Schwarz juggles dynamite, but only after dampening it".