The opening is sensational and, as if the narrative weren't compelling enough, [Agnieszka] Holland keeps trying to top it for the rest of the movie with a hectic, hyper dramatic camera style.

| Feb 25, 2019

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Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2014

Holland never risks overlooking the hardship that comes with being on the right side of history. "Burning Bush" is a riposte to the idea that there's anything beautiful about dying for your beliefs.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 13, 2014

Elegantly scripted with an edge of biting gallows humor by Stepan Hulik, Burning Bush blends an intimate domestic drama with a thrilling Cold War procedural ...

| Jun 12, 2014

[An] absorbing, intelligent account of the fallout resulting from a young Czech student's symbolic self-immolation at the close of the Prague Spring [...]

| Jun 12, 2014

An absorbing docudrama that maintains a gratifying equilibrium between hope and cynicism.

| Original Score: B | Jun 11, 2014

"Burning Bush" really isn't intended for American viewers, and you may need to do a little homework or scramble to keep up. Generally speaking, it's highly worth it.

| Jun 11, 2014

[A] thoughtful, gripping, crisply acted new film.

| Jun 10, 2014

It's tense, pained, unfailingly intelligent, and distinguished by the occasional visual flourish ...

| Jun 10, 2014

'Burning Bush' is a rare accomplishment [...] and true to its HBO roots, it works as a fleet-of-foot juicy plot-delivery system.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2014

The decentralized narrative benefits from the film's original conception as a miniseries, with plenty of time to draw us into the morass that was the communist state.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2014