Holy Rollers – review

Although it sounds like the start of an old Jewish joke – did you hear the one about the rabbi and the drug dealer? – Holy Rollers is based on a true story. A young Hasidic Jew in 1990s Brooklyn, Jesse Eisenberg uses the social network of the orthodox community to smuggle ecstasy pills from Holland. Who's going to frisk a frummer? It's a surprisingly cool little film, not funny at all but rather seriously torn between the secular and the sacred, a conflict Eisenberg expresses with a neurotic intensity.