Kristin M. Jones Film Comment Magazine [Christian] Mungiu has taken a leap forward into bold, focused storytelling. Feb 14, 2018 Full Review 
Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Rated: 5/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian Grippingly horrible. Rated: 5/5 Oct 18, 2008 Full Review
Bianca Garner Filmotomy The bleak mise-en-scene and often handheld camerawork coupled with long takes help ground the film in this form of social realism and documentary filmmaking. Despite being set in the 1980s, there is no romanticizing or nostalgic longing for the past. Oct 4, 2024 Full Review
Eve Tushnet Patheos The trains, especially, seemed to me like a representation of how it feels when you think that another life exists, but not for you. That feeling is usually false but it is very convincing. May 24, 2023 Full Review
Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review In a story that unfolds over a tense 24-hour period, Mungiu steeps us in the everyday, forcing the viewer to understand this world through its discordance with our own. Rated: 4/4 Feb 12, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews
