Checkpoint

The Israeli documentary "Checkpoint" does too little to explore its subject of the border crossings that define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on a personal level, but it does spur thought about the psychology on both sides of the country's divide.

This is quite a week to be seeing the documentary "Checkpoint." It's a week when many of the contradictions of Israeli politics are coming to a head, and the checkpoints that separate Jewish and Palestinian territories, where this film was shot, are flashpoints of the conflict.