80
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVranik’s film couldn’t be more timely in its moral inquiry, but it’s timeless in form and technique, a melodrama tempered with a painstaking realism.
- 90The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThe film, directed by Roland Vranik from a script by Mr. Vranik and Ivan Szabo, is a careful, compassionate and beautifully acted character drama with a social conscience.
- 80Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiFilm Journal InternationalChris BarsantiDeliberately paced but shot with a quiet magnetism and close-in immediacy,The Citizen benefits in comparison to other immigrant dramas because even though this is a story suffused with empathy, it doesn’t center on either a good deed being done by a white Westerner for a helpless dark-skinned foreigner or that foreigner’s two-dimensional pluck.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckBeautifully acted by its ensemble of mostly non-professional actors, The Citizen puts a very human face on a topic that has inflamed much of the Western world.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAn involving, stacked deck of a story plus strong acting and a mix of vital themes combine to make The Citizen a solid drama about immigration, nationalism and survival in an often unforgiving world.
- 63Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardIt adheres too rigidly to news-cycle replications of barbaric governmental acts, and without putting them into greater perspective.