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Golda
Directed by
Guy Nattiv
PG-13
2023
1h 41m
Biography
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Drama
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6.0
54%
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Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.
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Cast of Golda
Helen Mirren
Golda Meir
Camille Cottin
Lou Kaddar
Liev Schreiber
Henry Kissinger
Lior Ashkenazi
David 'Dado' Elazar
Rami Heuberger
Moshe Dayan
Rotem Keinan
Zvi Zamir
Dvir Benedek
Eli Zeira
Ellie Piercy
Shir Shapiro
Henry Goodman
Chairman Agranat
Ed Stoppard
Benny Peled
Dominic Mafham
Haim Bar-Lev
Ohad Knoller
Ariel Sharon
Emma Davies
Miss Epstein
Mark Fleischmann
Minister Uri
Daniel Ben Zenou
Avner Shalev
Olivia Brody
Young Pianist
Zed Josef
Adam Snir
Jaime Ray Newman
Henry Kissinger's Secretary
Jonathan Tafler
Dr Rosenfeld
Sara Matin
Yael - Female Soldier
Muneesh Sharma
Israeli Army Officer (uncredited)
Kit Rakusen
Gideon Meir (uncredited)
Sumit Chakravarti
Israeli Soldier (uncredited)
Sam Shoubber
Member of Israel Agranat Commission (uncredited)
Peter Watson
Israeli Policeman (uncredited)
Guy Nattiv
Director
Nicholas Martin
Writer / Producer
Jane Hooks
Producer
Michael Kuhn
Producer
Golda Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 2, 2025
Helen Mirren, unrecognizable as Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, navigates the 19 day Yom Kippur War in this historical political thriller. Mirren gives a strong performance, but I never truly felt the tension even though the fates were balancing on a razor’s edge. The battle sequences play out on 2 dimensional maps, with newsreel montages and voiceover, and politicians listening to military radio communications in smoke-filled rooms. This direction works decently enough to portray the events, but for my taste it was completely lacking in tension.
Austin Chronicle
Jenny Nulf
Golda isn't a failure of skill, but one of vision.
A Good Movie To Watch
Savina Petkova
The film itself describes Golda as a hero outside of Israel and controversial in her own land, and it does well enough in embodying that very same controversy.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Damon Wise
Nattiv's understated direction brings to mind Tomas Alfredson's understated adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The shadow of Le Carré does loom large, which may be attributable to Nicholas Martin's thoughtful script.
Observer
Rex Reed
[Mirren's] relentless courage and self-assurance have obviously convinced her she can play any role she so desires. True, she can play a lot of them. Aging, dowdy Israeli prime minister Golda Meir is not one of them.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
There is no trace of Helen Mirren in Golda, and that's the way it ought to be. To say that she becomes the fabled Israeli Prime Minister is a mild understatement, and it should come as no surprise that she delivers a great performance.
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Thelma Adams
Perceptions may be colored by revisionist political opinions of Meir, but Mirren embodies a complex character of conscience and empathy, who feels deeply and acts decisively to preserve an independent state even as she herself is disappearing. A gem.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
Helen Mirren gets lost beneath layers of heavy prosthetics and a swirl of incessant cigarette smoke in "Golda."
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
It's a war film told from a statewoman's point of view, which both works and doesn't.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
The real Meir has more energy and charisma in the few seconds when she's shown onscreen than Mirren has in 100 minutes.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
The more glaring problem is that Golda itself never rises above the level of an actor's showcase, never achieves - despite some noticeable effort - a more complicated, challenging reading of history.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It is the woman at the center of the story whose personality and contradictions are given short shrift, in any deep sense.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
Though the contours of its story are fairly standard statesman-at-war drama, "Golda" is unusually blunt about the internal devastation that comes with overseeing military operations.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Nattiv mixes real footage with re-creations and you can't help but wonder if the subject matter could have been explored more thoroughly in nonfiction format.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
[Mirren's] so-so performance is weighed down all the more by a disappointing dearth of context about this fascinating woman.
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
It's not clear why smoking is so important to the filmmakers. Perhaps it's to show Meir's stubbornness or single-mindedness or stress release, but it just becomes a filmmaking crutch, like real nicotine.
New York Times
Amy Nicholson
As one imagines the burden of wearing Meir's artificial skin, you can practically hear Nattiv hiss: Now imagine putting yourself in the actual woman's orthopedic shoes.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Mirren portrays Meir in her darkest days at the height of the 1973 Yom Kippur War with empathy and loving subtlety. It's hard to imagine anyone doing it better, and this is territory that was once mined by Ingrid Bergman...
The Messenger
Jordan Hoffman
Helen Mirren's makeup-enhanced act of mimicry as the Middle Eastern Prime Minister is remarkable.
The Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
A lumps-and-all showcase for Mirren and makeup.
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