Sad, very dark... tremendously revealing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 8, 2022

The compelling documentary Hold Your Fire has lessons that go beyond this chronicle of a notorious hostage crisis that happened in New York City in 1973. The movie shows how dangerous situations can be de-escalated with the correct communication.

| Jul 4, 2022

What Hold Your Fire accomplishes especially well is its objectivity. It never pushes too hard to exonerate or prove the guilt of any side.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 23, 2022

One of the best documentaries you will see this year that makes a great coupling with Stanley Nelson’s Attica. The fact that most of the players on both side of this story are alive to tell the story feels like a miracle.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 14, 2022

This is an excellent documentary.

| Jun 7, 2022

Forbes does not heed his own advice, misfiring entirely.

| Original Score: 5.0/10 | May 30, 2022

Forbes does something daring with the interviews. He will juxtapose comments that are contradictory, not necessarily in fact but in interpretation or emphasis. This creates a kind of stereo effect that enlarges the film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2022

What director Stefan Forbes manages to achieve is a documentarian’s dream state, bolstered by a staggering access to a number of New York characters who were directly involved in a nightmare.

| May 24, 2022

A thoroughly absorbing flashback with many applicable lessons for us now.

| May 23, 2022

Hold Your Fire is an answer, a groundbreaking documentary with a true example of showing every side. This allows the audience to walk in the shoes of everyone involved in that fateful moment in Brooklyn, New York.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 21, 2022

The excellent and infuriating Hold Your Fire has all the twists and turns of the best hostage movie thrillers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2022

This insightful documentary not only vividly captures the scene through firsthand accounts, but it also adds layers of thought-provoking contemporary relevance.

| May 20, 2022

Hold Your Fire goes into sufficient detail to play like a well-crafted Hollywood thriller. If you don't already know what happened, you're likely to be on the edge of your seat.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2022

The multiple perspectives in “Hold Your Fire” add up to a fascinating look back at a still-raging debate over the true purpose of policing.

| May 20, 2022

Forbes often cuts from one account to another, as if the film itself is serving as a conversation, not only with the truth, but also through the lies that somehow persist...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2022

Hold Your Fire is a bona-fide thriller, its elements in delicate balance.

| May 20, 2022

What emerges is a kaleidoscopic narrative that lays bare the disconnect between the officers and the communities they serve.

| May 19, 2022

Hold Your Fire sets its gaze toward a critical historical moment to examine the specifics of what occurred and provide a reflexive analysis to be viewed in a modern context.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 19, 2022

The most fascinating element of the film is in how the story unfolds, and how it is seen from both sides of the conflict.

| Original Score: B | May 19, 2022

[Forbes is] presenting the facts that surrounded this landmark crime. [He's] peeling back the layers of manipulation to ultimately reveal a truth we all know too well: America is a white supremacist nation built upon violence.

| Original Score: B+ | May 19, 2022