"An absolutely harrowing experience."
— Mark Kermode, Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
"It is a fierce, vehement piece of work."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"The most vital film of the decade... an astonishing blend of dramatization and reality."
— Iana Murray, GQ
"What is being presented instead is a remembrance and a plea to keep the fires of moral urgency lighted."
— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
"The cast do admirable work in a film that must have tested them too. The result is exactly as harrowing as it needs to be."
— Danny Leigh, Financial Times
"The actors on screen react in real-time with the recordings of that harrowing day, and the effect is at once painfully direct, and profound."
— Bob Mondello, NPR
"The Voice of Hind Rajab’s release during the ongoing humanitarian crisis moves it beyond documentation and into an essential act of intervention."
— Whelan Barzey, Time Out
"About as powerful as cinema gets. Its hybrid blend of documentary audio and devastating dramatisation is heart-wrenchingly, shatteringly effective."
— John Nugent, Empire Magazine
"Discomfiting and emotionally devastating in the extreme, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s dramatised account of Hind’s death is utterly essential film-making."
— Nick Howells, London Evening Standard
"After a week of often frivolous yet headlining Hollywood fictions, the most uncompromising and politically consequential movie of the Venice Film Festival has arrived — and it doesn’t disappoint."
— Kevin Maher, The Times (UK)
"Some might take issue that actual recordings get used, but given the message this expertly made film so emphatically presents, that haunting voice makes the film all that more powerful, meaningful and dispiriting."
— Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
"'The Voice of Hind Rajab' proves quite unavoidably devastating: The original audio footage carries a brutal emotional wallop in any context, and there’s value in making a cinema audience captive to it, unable to pause or stop or avert our ears."
— Guy Lodge, Variety
