22 July is not an easy movie to watch but it's one you should consider giving your time to.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2018

It's a tough watch but that is exactly what it should be.

| Oct 15, 2018

Harrowing to watch... yet offering little context and few fresh insights.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 15, 2018

It gives this evil man the spotlight and platform he so clearly craves. And as much as Greengrass is aware of this conundrum, he never quite figures out a solution.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2018

The film is about atmosphere and anger, and Greengrass achieves that effect through tight focus on individuals. But the result is imperfect, because it elides crucial elements of the whole story.

| Oct 11, 2018

Overall, 22 July sees the victims as a largely anonymous mass. Their personalities are vague; their individuation is near-absent. Shouldn't that trouble us?

| Oct 11, 2018

Paul Greengrass' gritty, live-wire directing style is something of a trademark, and it's put to efficient use in 22 July, a layered, dense look at the savage terrorist attack that rocked Norway on that date in 2011.

| Oct 11, 2018

Director Paul Greengrass' latest docudrama re-enacts the 2011 massacre in Norway with chilling accuracy - but stumbles when revisiting the details of the aftermath.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 11, 2018

Fiction that hews close to fact, the movie is serious and meticulous, yet hollow.

| Oct 11, 2018

What a perverse niche Paul Greengrass has carved out for himself.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 11, 2018

22 July is at its most engrossing and moving in its depiction of one brave kid, a victim of Breivik who was shot five times and lived, and that kid's eventual resolve to face the terrorist in court.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 10, 2018

What does Greengrass hope to achieve with a film like this?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2018

Reduces the terrorist attacks that rocked Norway in 2011 to a crass movie parable: Here's the everyman who overcomes considerable pain and helps put a deadly extremist in jail.

| Oct 10, 2018

22 July is exceptionally choreographed and tough to sit through, but it also leaves an uneasy, bitter aftertaste...

| Original Score: B- | Oct 10, 2018

It's likely only a filmmaker of Greengrass' experience and stature could have gotten it made at all, let alone so successfully.

| Oct 10, 2018

The result is that what starts out harrowing ends up affirming a portrait of a country that unites to make the tragedy of 22 July count for something - the strength of their national character.

| Oct 10, 2018

22 July at its core, is about responsibility... [questioning] what responsibilities the survivors have to the diseased

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 10, 2018

Greengrass has once again composed a gripping, sometimes unbearably stressful re-creation of horror, so true to life that the "why" of it all is just as inscrutable as life itself.

| Oct 10, 2018

Greengrass previously excelled at depicting events that overwhelmed individuals; in "22 July," he demonstrates how one deluded zealot can shake an entire country.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2018

22 July is so good it hurts.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 10, 2018