"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