Simi Horwitz is a feature writer and film reviewer based in New York City. In 2022, she received first place for film criticism from the Society for Feature Journalism, and in 2023, a New York Press Club Award for an Entertainment News feature; and three Los Angeles Press Club Awards, including first place for film criticism — all for pieces published in the Forward.
Simi Horwitz
By Simi Horwitz
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Film & TV Israel’s ‘best comedy’ arrives in America — with honesty, nihilism and subtitles
In 'Significant Other,' two neighbors find a balm for loneliness in each other
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Art How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust
Richard Scheuer's images of ordinary life in 1934 are both unsettling and prescient
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Film & TV ‘The most riveting and raw documentary I have ever seen’
In 'Last Flight Home,' Ondi Timoner chronicles her ailing father's decision to end his own life
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Film & TV Can you tell the entire history of antisemitism in just four episodes?
A new documentary strives to chronicle the story of the oldest hatred from antiquity to the 21st century
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Film & TV Why a Jewish sensibility was crucial to telling the story of a hate-filled extremist’s astounding change of heart
In Joshua Seftel's documentary "Stranger at the Gate," a would-be mosque bomber comes to embrace Islam
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Film & TV How a deadly disease saved Jewish lives and fooled the Nazis during WWII
‘Syndrome K,’ the subject of a new documentary, was highly contagious and highly fictional
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Film & TV From Argentina, a surprisingly delightful movie about a rabbi in Taiwan
In ‘Shalom Taiwan,’ a synagogue leader travels far out of his comfort zone to discover the secret to happiness
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Culture Using previously unknown photographs, a new Holocaust documentary demands to be seen
In ‘From Where They Stood,’ harrowing images were taken by the concentration camp prisoners themselves
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