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Yes

Mar 2026

2h 30m

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One of international cinema's most fearless and provocative filmmakers, Nadav Lapid has long been an outspoken critic of his birth country's government policies, channeling a lifetime of fury and frustration into vital films like Synonyms and Ahed's Knee that brim with righteous anger, spite, and shame. In Yes, Lapid once again takes vigorous critical aim at the Israeli government with a new approach: submission. In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel's social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem. Feverishly whirling between moments of satire, sincerity, and complete submission, Yes is a visceral, blistering indictment of modern Israel, and an essential addition to post-October 7 cinema.

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Critics Consensus

A maximalist meditation on malaise, Nadav Lapid's Yes doesn't offer up easy answers but certainly poses thought-provoking questions with comedic flair.

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Peter Travers

The Travers Take

Apr 3

3.5/4

Israeli filmmaker Navid Lapid is taking the risk that audiences will embrace a tragically real situation about his country’s military culture presented as an absurdist comedy. Say yes

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Joshua Rothkopf

Los Angeles Times

Apr 3

Yes won’t sway any hardliners but it should convince anyone with eyes of the absurdity of trying to write a hate song, even as Y screams its vicious lyrics into the wind.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Apr 3

3.5/4

It’s worth seeing and arguing about. Even if you end up hating it, there are moments you’ll never forget.

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Andrew Parker

The Gate

Jul 18

10/10

Lapid’s greatest masterpiece yet; a wide ranging, eccentric, energetic, and bracing blend of the personal and the political mounted by someone who loves their country and is deeply fearful of its future.

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Jun 25

B-

Y’s journey, though, does not resolve the conflict over Gaza and the brutality against its people. Instead, it tries to present both sides and that is a lot harder to do.

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Jun 19

B-

both an incendiary satire of a country spiraling into moral decay and an indulgent film often lacking clarity. One can almost feel its maker descending into madness.

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Roger P

@RT51744219 Jul 27

I was looking forward to learning the message in this movie, but within 15 minutes, it make me sick.. Literally. With the camera constantly jumping around and the bright lights and cacophony and the decadence, I became nauseated and had to stop. I'm angry at the director for alientating my stomach to point what I could not watch that may be an important movie. Grrrr. Maybe I'm too old for this.

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danelectro T

@danelectro Jun 15

Many will fail to understand the irony, humor, and absurdity this director employs to illustrate living in a settler society. Both the horrors of October 7th and of the consequent military response are heftily described. This film takes no sides, only illustrating the acute alienation you feel living in a society ultra-dependent on its military. Many Russians feel the same with the ongoing Ukraine invasion. You must be prepared to watch 2 hours and 20 minutes of surrealism borrowed from Fellini and Bunuel, but using images one could fairly say are borrowed from rock videos. Instead of describing the indescribable verbally, the director is using images and sounds to generate the dizzying desperation, anger, confusion, and anxiety that living in Israel produces. Everything you see is a metaphor. This is the nightmare that Jews who were not Zionists warned could happen. The frantic urge to party, consume, and be happy, is psychologically in proportion to the constant guilt and denial.

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Robert B

Apr 5

Trailer looks good. When might I be able to see in The USA?

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elizabeth B

@RT48996692 Mar 31

Pornographically hateful, like much of Lapid’s work. Frenetic, depraved, deeply racist, self important art by a man who seems to find crave meaning but seeks in only hating and tearing down his brothers while imagining himself a prophet.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Mar 27

The worldwide gross is $421,835.00.

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Itay I

@Tatigideon Jan 3

Horrible film - presumptive and shallow

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One of international cinema's most fearless and provocative filmmakers, Nadav Lapid has long been an outspoken critic of his birth country's government policies, channeling a lifetime of fury and frustration into vital films like Synonyms and Ahed's Knee that brim with righteous anger, spite, and shame. In Yes, Lapid once again takes vigorous critical aim at the Israeli government with a new approach: submission. In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel's social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem. Feverishly whirling between moments of satire, sincerity, and complete submission, Yes is a visceral, blistering indictment of modern Israel, and an essential addition to post-October 7 cinema.

Director: Nadav Lapid
Producer: Judith Lou Lévy, Hugo Sélignac, Antoine Lafon
Screenwriter: Nadav Lapid
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Les Films du Bal, Chi-Fou-Mi Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Original Language: Hebrew
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 27, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 12, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA): $40.2K
Runtime: 2h 30m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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