Sandra Lynch

Save your money. While Helen Mirren is as good as the limited script will allow, the direction and script of this movie really lacks. Shots that make you aware of the camera without adding to the story, disjointed storytelling — Israel goes from suffering horrendous losses and being ambushed to suddenly holding all the cards — the obsession with shots of cigarettes being lit and extinguished, made this hard to sit through. We never get to know Golda at all. I must have checked my watch three times. Such a disappointment.