The horror experienced by Aida — and this entire town — is only emphasized in a devastating coda that demonstrates just how depraved these events were, and how profoundly the world failed them.

| Jul 29, 2024

Žbanić, sheltered with a finely tuned aesthetic, offers a raw and deeply human vision at the horrors of the Bosnian war. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 14, 2024

“Quo Vadis, Aida?” is a great period film that drops viewers in the middle of the action in an unfamiliar place. Director Jasmila Zbanic uses Aida as a focal point to become emotionally invested since the scope of the people in jeopardy is so vast

| Jun 10, 2024

Whoever lived in the chauvinist squalor that was the 1990s in the Balkans, a time when avenging ghosts and delusional violent men ravaged these lands, knows the truth when they see it. There may be many paths to it [...] But there is only one destination.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 25, 2024

Suspenseful, taut, and deeply moving, Quo Vadis Aida? follows one woman over the course of a harrowing, fateful couple of days, as she tries to protect her family.

| Aug 23, 2022

From the very first frame “Quo Vadis, Aida?” comes across as a deeply personal film. It has a lot it wants to say and more it wants to expose.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Unlucky not to win the Best International Feature Oscar in 2021, Quo Vadis, Aida? is a taut, rigorous, resonant, unshakeably potent balancing act.

| Jun 25, 2022

Essential viewing because of just how powerfully it uses visual storytelling to make its audience understand every aspect of this unimaginable tragedy, without ever feeling dour or heavy-handed.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 13, 2022

This film will make you think about what you would have done in this situation and what anyone can do when faced with cruelty and injustice.

| Feb 25, 2022

The achievement of Zbanic’s compelling, deeply moving film is to give faces and personalities to the victims. And towering above them all is the character of Aida as she tenaciously fights to save her men.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 23, 2022

It’s so harrowing that you have to remind yourself to breathe. But you won’t forget it, which is exactly the way Zbanic wants it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 23, 2022

As well as serving as a testament to the events that lead to the killings, the film also has a focused political agenda...In several scenes that will have you gasping in disbelief we see the UN as a model of staggering incompetence and military impotence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2022

Fiction meets horrific fact in a white-knuckled personalisation of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2022

A vital film about a heartbreaking page in history, Zbanic has made an unforgettable triumph.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Harrowing not just for the banality of evil on display but how it shows the horrors clicking into place.

| Jan 11, 2022

Quo Vadis, Aida? writer-director Jasmila banić lays out the makings of a genocide. ... More importantly, [it] serves as a reminder of the apathy and evil that humanity is capable of. And it hits even harder given the slippery slope we are on.

| Dec 29, 2021

It's not subtle, but it works.

| Dec 3, 2021

banić supplies the material with an urgency familiar to the docudramas of Paul Greengrass, except with a strong current of despair and outrage that doesn't always poke through that filmmaker's meticulously detailed you-are-there accounts.

| Dec 3, 2021

For much of the story the focus is on Aida's face, behind which maternal courage is corralling an escalating fury.

| Dec 3, 2021

This study in chaos and calculation not only makes for harrowingly compelling viewing, but it also exposes the apathy of an international community that simply turned the other way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2021