70 Los Angeles Times | Gary Goldstein Writer-director Steven Silver (with an able assist from cinematographer Miroslaw Baszak) captures this brutal time - which led to the country's first free, multiracial elections in 1994 and the end of apartheid - in vivid, often bold, but never overpowering strokes. Read full review
60 Movieline | Stephanie Zacharek Unfortunately, Silver's movie doesn't cut deep enough: It glosses over some thorny questions and hammers too fixedly on others. Read full review
60 New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman The story has heat, even if the movie is more entranced with its subjects than in what they're trying to achieve. Read full review
50 The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen When all is said and done, their Pulitzer-winning photographs prove more potent than this well-intended but frustratingly generic picture. Read full review