Jonah Feingold’s ’31 Candles’ reinvents the bar mitzvah movie for late bloomers In “31 Candles,” a filmmaker becomes a bar mitzvah to win the heart of his childhood crush, exploring Jewish joy and what it means to grow up at 31.
The ‘Agatha All Along’ bar mitzvah scene is the Jewish representation Marvel has been missing What “Agatha All Along” provided is even more rare: Jewishness just for its own sake, without a direct relation to plot.
The best bar and bat mitzvah movies if you enjoyed ‘Between the Temples’ “Between the Temples” joins a genre of various b’nai mitzvah films that track that awkward, uncomfortable, and rewarding stage of becoming a Jewish adult.
Coming-of-age can’t be defined by age in Nathan Silver’s bat mitzvah comedy ‘Between the Temples’: review It’s never too late to pursue a Jewish adulthood — or to fall in love, at least according to director Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples.”
