Netflix
The movie One of Us is already released on Netflix in the USA.
Based on 5 reviews, One of Us gets an average review score of 79
The title "One of Us" cuts deeply, in two directions. This documentary by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady zeroes in on three individuals who were once part of a tightly knit community of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, New York. All three eventually left the tribe, as it were, because they found its conditions for membership suffocating, even abusive.
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The film is a nuanced and moving illustration of the dilemma facing doubting members of the growing Hasidic community in New York City.
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As a documentary, One of Us is a small act of portraiture, but each portrait captures the pain of having a life upended.
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It's incisive in its condemnation of the oppression innate in the social structure of Brooklyn's Hasidic communities.
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The team behind Jesus Camp documents harrowing escapes from Hasidic Judaism in One Of Us.
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