March 6, 2003
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
In April 1928, twenty years before the founding of Israel, Joseph Stalin created the world's first Jewish homeland in the Soviet Union, in a barren stretch of land on Siberia's Far Eastern border. Alt... read more 
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January 31, 2003
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Talking heads and shots of the grim landscape can get awfully tiresome.
January 30, 2003
Dave Kehr, New York Times
A fertile concept vanishes behind confused, overwrought style. Full Review
January 28, 2003
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Like Strom's earlier docs, L'Chayim Comrade Stalin is best appreciated as an exercise in creative ethnography. Full Review
November 3, 2005
Jordan Hiller, Bangitout.com
We are fortunate enough to see films like L'chayim Comrade Stalin, where the last brilliant sparks shine most astonishingly Full Review
March 14, 2003
Wade Major, Boxoffice Magazine
Replete with surprises, twists and thought-provoking anecdotes. Full Review
March 10, 2003
Brent Simon, Entertainment Today
The smarter film would have really put its beliefs through the wringer; Strom's movie contents itself with the surface and as such remains a wan, Xeroxed filmic hand-out of a potentially interesting h... Full Review
March 6, 2003
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
The story of the JAR can be read as tragedy, but the exuberant Strom ... is by artistic temperament an optimist. Full Review
February 13, 2003
Elias Savada, Nitrate Online
Like the swamps on which the Siberian town Birobidzhan was built, Yale Strom's latest documentary L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin! is mired in mediocrity. Full Review
February 12, 2003
Donald J. Levit, Film Threat
Like the Jewish Autonomous Region itself, it is stillborn and empty. Full Review
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