A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

Runtime: 111m • R

Singing in its own key, there might not be a more authentic and purely entertaining film this year. – Tribune News

Director Nathan Silver’s hopeful film demonstrates the adaptability of tradition, and the possibility of reconciliation and continuity across the generations. – The Atlantic

The complexity and the layers of partially healed emotional scars that underpin [Carol Kane’s] sunny, goofy performance in Between the Temples make this a career-best contender for the 72-year-old actor. -The Observer

The humor—sometimes acerbic, sometimes wacky—is integral to its worldview and exaggerated, stubborn characters. -AV Club

“Between the Temples” emerges as a quirky and effective showcase for two actors known for playing oddball characters. Kane and Schwartzman bounce off each other so well that their work alone makes the film worth seeing. -Boston Globe

The movie is consistently funny, but its humor tends to be fairly gentle because it’s rooted in human behavior rather than in condescending, judgmental ideas about such behavior. -New York Times

Schwartzman is very affecting as a perplexed, tragicomic galoot and Kane is a marvel. -Financial Times

“Between the Temples” is not going to pretend that life or its characters know what they’re doing and we are not going to get the satisfying resolution you might expect. Instead you will see an excellent cast play characters who try to find their way. -Movie Mom