"Best Film of 2016"
-The New Yorker
"Best Film of 2016"
-New York Magazine
"NYT Critics' Pick."
- The New York Times
"LA Times Critics' Pick."
– Los Angeles Times
"Riveting...a big film."
- The Wall Street Journal
"The movie is as gripping as true-crime procedurals “Serial” and “Making a Murderer,” but with more intimacy and heartache."
- The Washington Post
"Extraordinary…The movie’s one reenactment—an ingenious experiment in forensics and social science—unites drama, journalism, and first-hand experience in a masterstroke of pure cinema.”
- The New Yorker
"Astonishing new true-crime documentary...unspeakably compelling."
- Newsweek
“[A] powerful movie…its greatest triumph is that for a brief time it resurrects Kitty Genovese, and lets us see her as a person.”
- RogerEbert.com
“The Witness paints a picture of a complicated, magnetic woman tragically cut down in her prime…the truth is remarkable.”
- Vogue
“A remarkably intimate attempt to reach clarity and catharsis in the Genovese saga…a physical journey through history and myth.” (A-)
- Entertainment Weekly
"The 20 Best Documentaries of 2016 So Far."
- The Playlist
"Fascinating!"
- The Guardian
“Concretely personal…highlights a human desire to reconstruct old memories, and the flawed narratives we tell ourselves in order to live with it all.”
- The Economist
“As deeply moving as it is enlightening.”
– The Hollywood Reporter
“A multi-layered nonfiction work about myth, self-deception and reclaiming life from death.”
– Variety
"'The Witness,'...feels like essential viewing at this particular moment."
– Los Angeles Times
"Urgent and important...unnerving as anything you'll find on screen this season."
– Indiewire
"Engrossing...reveals that history got this wrong."
– CNN
"A careful inquiry into the tricks memory plays, and into how ambiguous events get reshaped into narratives that fit individual and collective needs."
– NPR
"The Witness takes a heartaching deep dive into a story we already thought we knew."
– The Daily Beast
"Fascinating. Eye-opening."
– NY1
"Powerful and moving, not just another true crime serial."
– Newsday (4 out of 4 stars)
"Chilling."
– Christian Science Monitor
“Reminiscent of Chinatown.”
– VICE
“[An] engrossing new documentary.”
– Yahoo
“Over 50 years later, Kitty Genovese’s story is more revelatory than ever.”
– Gawker
“Liable to foster extensive studies on the ramifications of traumatic loss and the need to understand otherwise senseless acts.”
– CBS News.com
"I'm not giving everything away because I want people to see The Witness. I thought that it was very, very impactful, very emotional, very illuminating."
- Sirius XM POTUS Politics
"Powerful and significant...one of the most satisfying documentaries released this year"
– San Francisco Examiner
"Seek out this potentially life altering film"
– Forbes
"The best documentary I've seen this year"
– Rob Thomas, The Capital-Times
"The Witness is required viewing...the movie’s climactic final moments, results in one of the most disturbing, cathartic, primal sequences I’ve ever seen on film"
– Joyce's Choices (Joyce Kulhawik)
“A gripping, painfully personal, deeply humane documentary.”
– Brooklyn Magazine
"What begins as a riveting deep dive into a cultural flashpoint becomes... [an] always fascinating realization that ‘it’s hard to let go when you can never know the whole truth.’”
– Flavorwire
