"Footnote" is a film about Talmudic research, that field in Hebraic studies devoted to close analysis of the ancient, critical (in all ways) Jewish text amassed from writings on the law. Talmudic ...

The Oscar-nominated Israeli drama Footnote has a bit of a tonal problem. Most of the first half is aggressively whimsical, using onscreen titles, animation, split-screens and arch narration to ...

Joseph Cedar’s “Footnote’’ is set in the world of Israeli academia and focuses on two Talmudic scholars, neither of whom, scholastically speaking, thinks the world of the other. The irony of that ...