There are no simple answers, but with this set-up and its development, [Philippe] Van Leeuw gives us a lot to imagine and question.

| Sep 3, 2020

Chamber drama doesn't begin to describe this gripping French feature.

| Mar 26, 2020

Insyriated allows audiences to see a personal story that goes beyond the newspaper headlines we may have become desensitized to, a brief portrait of a life and not just a statistic.

| Jan 27, 2020

...the real horror of war is not found in the bloodletting of combat... but in the individualized toll it takes on simple people - human beings reduced to their basest survival instincts...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 26, 2019

As we peek into the day to day existence of a family stuck in an apartment in the middle of war torn Syria, we see how communities come together, fall apart and witness the resilience of the human spirit.

| Original Score: 9 | Jan 24, 2019

Insyriated is an uncomfortable but must-see film - a drama that feels like a documentary - that gives a worthy insight into the plight of ordinary people in a desperate situation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2018

Anger, guilt, and anguish become inevitably present in a tumultuous, anarchic world that every true man should be ashamed of.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 31, 2018

This is not an easy film to watch. It's more like an experience that needs to be endured, but its challenge is profoundly important.

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

The gamble works to turn the apartment into a symbol or a country that has become no man's land. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | May 8, 2018

Hiam Abbass is commanding. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2018

"In Syria" is a finely made film - brisk, well-acted and filled with tension and mean twists. But it's also a wake-up call and a cry for help.

| Original Score: A | Apr 20, 2018

From one hallway to the next and from room to room, [Philippe Van Leeuw] turns a home and its inhabitants into the center of the most complicated look at human conduct. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 19, 2018

Within the magnificent cast, the three women who star in it stand out for their sublime performance: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud and Juliette Navis. [Full review in Spanish]

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

The cast give great performances, especially Hiam Abbass. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2018

In Syria is an x-ray of a tense suffering. A walk with a camera that follows the characters through love and death. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2018

Cutting and abrasive, the director's ability to find intimate spaces in such a small area makes this unique setting feel like anything can happen. [Full Review in Spaniceh]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2018

With all the action taking place within the cramped apartment, Van Leeuw does a sterling job of creating nail-biting suspense without any physical action...the film is a reminder of the nightmare that many ordinary Syrians have had to endure every day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2018

As a viewer one certainly leaves Insyriated with a more visceral understanding of what the Syrian conflict means for millions of families. Whether that is of any help to them, is a separate question.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2017

A film so phony that its makers needed to coin a nonsense word to give it an appropriate title, the irksome Insyriated is the sort of feeble attempt at profundity that crops up in the face of every armed conflict.

| Nov 17, 2017

Insyriated is an intense thriller following a particularly hellish day in the life of an ordinary family in Syria.

| Oct 5, 2017