Sirāt

"It’s an exciting and emotional head trip worth revisiting time and again."

— Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

"This is original, explosive (literally — you’ll see!) and ovation-worthy, cinema."

— Kevin Maher, The Times (UK)

"Sirât is a truly staggering and major film, one that has to be seen to be believed."

— David Jenkins, Little White Lies

"An unforgettable portrait of the search for unity at the edge, and end, of the world."

— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

"Laxe’s film pulses with apocalyptic energy, spiritual longing and jump-from-your-seat plot turns."

— Peter Howell, Toronto Star

"Nothing about the pulsating ‘Sirāt’ is appropriate or expected or traditional or fully comprehensible. It just is. And it is utterly transfixing."

— Peter Travers, The Travers Take

"If you’re down for a trip, Sirat is The Wages of Fear meets The Vanishing on shrooms; startlingly original, jarringly hilarious and deeply disturbing."

— John Bleasdale, Time Out

"So intense you’ll want to scarper but so riveting you can’t leave, Sirāt is an assault on the senses, mind and emotions. If only all movies took swings this bold."

— Ian Freer, Empire Magazine

"It’s a reminder of what movies can do when they loosen the restraints of traditional narrative and remember that images are meant to evoke as much as they are to explain."

— Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

"For all its perils and cruelties, 'Sirāt' doesn’t drain you or numb you into submission. I left it unsteady but invigorated, and grateful anew for the ground beneath my feet."

— Justin Chang, The New Yorker

"Sirāt is not for everyone. But it is the sort of overwhelming cinematic experience and undeniable work of sound and vision that could be life-changing for those ready to receive it."

— David Fear, Rolling Stone

"The film is a vivid meditation on human possibility in the face of fate and nature’s tumultuous might, ending in a fog of ambiguity that mirrors that characters’ bewilderment."

— Mark Hanson,, Slant Magazine

"Its title refers to the mythical Islamic bridge across hell, on which one false step leads to damnation. The path trodden by the film itself is no less risky, but it styles out the crossing astonishingly."

— Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK)

"With an engaging cast of mostly first-time actors, Laxe takes the story into allegorical -- Mad Max meets The Wages of Fear -- territory, through a shocking mid-film tragedy, to a downright existential conclusion."

— Bob Mondello, NPR

"The film’s sound design, mixing David Letellier’s dance music score with howling wind, ambient rumble, and the occasional shocking explosion, continues at the same teeth-rattling density throughout its two-hour runtime."

— Mark Asch, Sight & Sound