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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 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

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

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

It is the gift of "Midnight Traveler" to allow us to feel this family's fate in the pit of our stomachs. If the plight of refugees has ever seemed abstract, this film makes sure you know how real it is.

| Oct 4, 2019

A remarkable documentary...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2019

Discussing their circumstances incisively, they offer trenchant views of religious and popular culture-and the role and the power of the cinema itself.

| Sep 23, 2019

It achieves its mission of putting an intimate, human face on a seemingly overwhelming, faraway subject.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2019

Hassan Fazili's documentary, Midnight Traveler, offers a necessary corrective to the widely held contention that refugees have nothing to offer to the countries where they land.

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2019

A bracingly intimate look at the trials of modern displacement...It's doing everything that it can.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2019

What largely distinguishes "Midnight Traveler" is its anxious intimacy, a sense of uneasy closeness that pulls you into a family circle that at times gets very small, creating a sense of appropriate claustrophobia.

| Sep 17, 2019

Balancing rough-edge verité with highly composed images and a meticulous structure, it doesn't preclude itself from finding something like poetry in its subjects' struggles.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 16, 2019

A documentary that feels like a modern-day message in a bottle, an urgent appeal for help from a family that's still searching for a home.

| Mar 21, 2019

It's a remarkable achievement.

| Jan 28, 2019

A valuable, first-hand refugees' story.

| Jan 28, 2019