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‘Bad Shabbos’ Review: An Interfaith Couple Survive a Sabbath Meal They Will Never Forget
Daniel Robbins' 'Bad Shabbos' — an entertaining, fast-paced comedy about a Sabbath dinner gone terribly awry — won a Tribeca Festival audience prize.
Set in the well-heeled part of New York’s Upper West Side Jewish community, Tribeca Festival audience award winner “ Bad Shabbos ” is an entertaining, fast-paced comedy about a Sabbath dinner gone terribly awry. After four previous indie features, director Daniel Robbins should score wider distribution with this tender look at several generations of modern Jews trying to balance the polarities of secular and religious lives, along with the dilemma of a dead body in the bathroom. Grounded in its Upper West Side location, including a glimpse of Zabar’s and a stop at Barney Greengrass, the sturgeon king, the film benefits from Robbins and Weiner’s knowledge of and affection for their milieu.
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