At its most emotionally impactful when Bombach simply plays observer to everything that's unfolding.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

Director Alexandria Bombach (Frame by Frame) shot this documentary portrait of human rights activist Nadia Murad not long before her subject received the Nobel Peace Prize, and the movie argues persuasively that the prize was well deserved.

| Mar 11, 2020

Bombach's film, and Nadia's willingness to participate in it, reminds us that what happens a world away is happening to us, to all of us as humankind.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2019

lexandria Bombach won a directing prize at Sundance for this portrait of Murad, but On Her Shoulders might just as well have been made by Murad's publicist.

| May 24, 2019

The film takes an intimate approach to its subject, who occasionally speaks directly to the camera. These moments can be revelatory.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2019

s a filmmaker, [Alexandria] Bombach (Frame by Frame) treats her with respect, but stops short of full-fledged worship.

| Mar 2, 2019

A good documentary about Nadia Murad.

| Original Score: B | Feb 26, 2019

As a huge supporters of not just women's rights, but "human rights, On Her Shoulders is a film that will strike a chord for everyone and encourage one to take action and no longer sit on the sidelines.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 6, 2019

Showing [Nadia] engaged in wearying rounds of speeches and meetings in 2016, it could have told us more about the Yazidi people, but is memorable as a portrait of a burdened young soul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2019

Bombach illuminates the ongoing anguish of the exiled Yazidis and the toll taken on their primary spokesperson. Shortlisted for the 2019 Best Documentary Feature Oscar, this powerful film deserves a wide audience.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 25, 2019

An engrossing and startling documentary on Yazidi advocate Nadia Murad.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2019

Be ready for tears, on screen and your own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2019

On Her Shoulders is a compassionate, level-headed portrait of a remarkable woman. What it lacks in filmmaking fireworks, it makes up for in the sheer magnetism and moxie of its hero.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2019

Nadia is shown always surrounded by crowds, almost crushed by them. But her utter loneliness is heartbreaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2019

On Her Shoulders is close to being awful.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 23, 2019

It asks questions of the audience that will leave you uncomfortable - but are an effective way of reframing the conversation on this subject, without proving detrimental to the sheer importance of Nadia's cause.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 23, 2019

Bombach clearly wants to shed light on the subject but takes it one step further by asking the audience to consider the morality of putting those seeking asylum through their paces.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2019

Hopeful as On Her Shoulders ultimately feels, it's hard not to let what's happening now dampen it.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 22, 2018

The terrifying story of the strong-willed Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi genocide and ISIS sexual slavery survivor.

| Original Score: B | Nov 18, 2018

The activist's life in the West has largely been seen through a particularly voyeuristic side of the press and On Her Shoulders gives her a platform to tell us who and what is really important - we need to listen.

| Nov 16, 2018