Screening Room: ‘Between the Temples’

Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane in Between the Temples (Sony Pictures Classics)

The new comedy Between the Temples opens later this week in limited release. Find it if you can.

My review is at PopMatters:

There is an honesty to Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples which belies the stylistic flourishes and alt-comedy sensibility. Moment after moment provides grist for some great epiphany or cute punchline that never quite comes. That is not to say it”s a comedy without laughs; “Can we have a shotgun bat mitzvah?” feels like a contender for one of the year’s best snort-funny lines. No film where a rabbi (TV Funhouse and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog creator Robert Smigel) putts golf balls into a shofar can be accused of taking itself too seriously…

Here’s the trailer: