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Movie Review; "Menashe" Is A Thoughtful and Surprisingly Relatable Film

MENASHE Starring Menashe Lustig, Ruben Nivorski,  Yoel Weisshaus, Meyer Schwartz Written by Alex Lipschulz, Musa Syeed and Joshua Z Weinstein Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein Reviewed by Patrick Gibbs Out of Four The religious world can be a difficult setting for a film. It becomes instantly off putting to people as something that they can't or do not want to relate to. But the movement towards mainstream films for devout Christians in the past few years has shifted that mindset a bit, and there are many clamoring for films about faith. Personally, as a Morman Christian who grew up in Utah, I haven't been able to relate to any of the in your face God's Not Dead  or Little Boy style angry Christian propaganda  (I won't even begin to talk about Kirk Cameron's diatribes), and non of the Mormon cinema has really connected with me all all, feeling forced and false. I did find elements of Hacksaw Ridge that I could identify with, and Martin Scorsese's trag