For all that, I find myself (churlishly?) rejecting Midnight Traveler...

| Jan 4, 2023

If one wants to realize the situation and the overall circumstances the refugees who flee to Europe face, one has to look no further, "Midnight Traveler" offers the best look in the subject, that of the "insider".

| Apr 11, 2021

Washington and its European accomplices have largely destroyed Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. Millions have died, tens of millions are on the run. Midnight Traveler records one case.

| Aug 6, 2020

A film that finds poignant family moments even in the darkest depths of the ongoing refugee crisis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2020

This is a first-person account of statelessness made with an eye for striking scenes -- not something that could have been put together by anyone who cribbed material from publicly available news sources.

| Feb 21, 2020

The combination of perspectives paints a vivid and hopeful portrait of a family, as well as an indictment of the refugee crisis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2020

Shot entirely on iPhones, the Afghan director's charming and moving documentary charts his three-year flight with his young family from Tajikistan, where they had failed to find asylum, 3,500 miles to the west.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2020

It is a suspenseful adventure story, a psychological profile of a family on the run and, most poignantly, an intimate portrait of two young children adopting adult behaviours as a matter of survival.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2020

A film that should be required viewing for anyone seeking to enter the debate on the refugee crisis, not as polemic but as a digital box of surprises.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2020

A powerful, personal piece of work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2020

Midnight Traveler is an unforgettable answer to the refugee question.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2020

Viewers of Fazili's rewarding film may be comparatively few, but Midnight Traveller offers an indelible record of how inhumanity continues to flourish in the early 21st century.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2020

...an unsettling sign of the times

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 7, 2019

Like Ad Astra, the film concentrates on relationships and emotional states as much as on outward action. Unlike Ad Astra, Midnight Traveler tells a story that actually happened.

| Oct 17, 2019

"Midnight Traveler" registers a moving illumination of the inimical challenges faced by those forcibly dislocated from their homeland, adrift on foreign soil and at the mercy of others.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 17, 2019

In showing such a personal, unmeditated view of the global migration crisis through one family's story, "Midnight Traveler" is a timely, essential film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 15, 2019

While the obstacles that face the Fizili family are daunting and, sometimes, heartbreaking and dangerous, the thing I got most out of this well-made and personal document is the stability and perseverance of the tiny family.

| Original Score: b+ | Oct 13, 2019

What makes Midnight Traveler distinct from its counterparts is that it follows filmmaker Hassan Fazili's own family, and the intimacy he's able to capture over the life spans of three iPhones makes his documentary more tender and honest and immediate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2019

This intimate documentary works on many levels... First and foremost, it illustrates the plight of the refugee during a global nationalism movement when even legal shelter can prove unsafe.

| Original Score: B | Oct 7, 2019

The wide-reaching scope of the overseas refugee crisis is given a fresh cinematic perspective by this urgent and persuasive first-person documentary.

| Oct 4, 2019