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 Horrified by his native land and overwhelmed by the weight of its sins, Nadav Lapid has crafted the most wrathful filmography in modern cinema, battling his own Israeliness as if it were an incurable virus infecting his work. The explosive *Synonyms* (2019) was a semi-autobiographical identity crisis about a man who flees to Paris, convinced he was born in the Middle East by mistake; *Ahed’s Knee* (2021), for its part, constituted a cry into the wind—equally personal, yet rooted in the frustrated impotence of artistic resistance in the face of an exultantly genocidal ethno-state. This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Kino Lorber will release *Yes* in theaters starting Friday, March 27, 2026. Horrified by his native land and overwhelmed by the weight of its sins, Nadav Lapid has crafted the most wrathful filmography in modern cinema, battling his own Israeliness as if it were an incurable virus infecting his work. The explosive *Synonyms* (2019)...