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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The serious struggle in this lilting doc is told with an inviting light touch and a big heart. Read full review

  • 80
    L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor

    Gluck, an oral historian, has the magpie eye of a born collector of objects, people and ideas, a cheeky appreciation for the ironies life drops on us, and enough of an open mind to let her odyssey lead her where it may. Read full review

  • 80
    Village Voice | J. Hoberman

    Warmhearted but unsentimental, touching but not mawkish, clever but never cute, Divan is almost miraculously modest. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Warm and engaging. Read full review

  • 70
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    Divan overcomes its stylistic clichés only because Gluck's story is rich, and because it comes to a knockout finish. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times |

    The result is a touching and humorous documentary that for all its enlightening scope, encompassing centuries of religious and cultural history and a physical voyage of thousands of miles, is ultimately a deceptively simple tale of a daughter trying to reconnect with her father across two boroughs. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    Offers a testimonial to the devastation caused in Hungary by the Holocaust, a glimpse into the richness of Yiddish folklore, a passive-aggressive assault on the patriarchal fastness of Hasidic orthodoxy and a vast self-reflexive joke. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post |

    A charming and astute first-person documentary. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    If Divan is often fascinating, it is sometimes frustrating. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Jonathan Curiel

    Too self-indulgent. Read full review

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