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In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls "a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch."
-- Jon Hotchkiss ( Chris Thomas had a similar answer, with self-revelation worthy of Daphne Merkin.)
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Nossiter's script about an affair between a homeless man (David Suchet) and a woman (Lisa Harrow) who mistakes him for a British filmmaker is called "elegant" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ), and Suchet is said to give "a virtuoso turn" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the film a formulaic, "overly schematic exercise in cinematic hide-and-seek."
But its take on religion is simple-minded: "In this novel one is either a messianist or a nonbeliever" (Jonathan Rosen, the New York Times Book Review ). A few reviewers say he succeeds entirely: "Leave it to a goy to write the definitive novel about Israel" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ).