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

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

[Writer-Director Jasmila banić] has said in interviews that her purpose here is to invite people to come together. In its own fervent and sorrowful way, I think her film succeeds in that improbable mission

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 23, 2021

Refreshingly, this is a war drama that doesn't hinge on indulgent or shameless violence. Instead, it focuses on the heart-wrenching devastation of more offhand cruelties.

| Apr 8, 2021

Superbly executed, "Quo Vadis, Aida?" is a masterful high wire act of tension and devastating humanism.

| Original Score: A | Mar 19, 2021

Life goes on, says "Quo Vadis, Aida?," but you must never, ever forget. After seeing this movie, you won't.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2021

Unsparing and astonishing...

| Mar 11, 2021

banić's movie traces that story to its horrific conclusion and beyond, jumping years ahead to a wintry coda that feels by turns damning, haunting and faintly consoling.

| Mar 10, 2021

It's a despairing, nay, devastating piece of work that leaves one drained, exhausted, appalled and admiring, which is the desired and only plausible reaction.

| Mar 9, 2021

A razor-sharp incrimination of failed foreign policies from around the world.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 5, 2021

In "Quo Vaids, Aida?", banic lays bare the deeply human toll of violence and war.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 10, 2021

[Writer-director Jasmila banic] has shaped the factual into an eloquent and conscientious picture that purrs along as suspensefully as any ticking-bomb thriller, using Ðuricic's performance as its engine.

| Jan 27, 2021

So let me put it another way. Jasmila Zbanic's offering is as suspenseful as The Great Escape and features a bunch of children so cute they belong in a John Lewis ad.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 26, 2021

It's incendiary, furiously committed film-making from the director Jasmila Zbanic, who also adds an unnerving ending about the burden that Srebrenica survivors still bear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2021

banić's powerful and personal film keeps its eyes wide open.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2021

After 25 years, the time has come to look again at the horror of Srebrenica, and Zbanic has done this with clear-eyed compassion and candour.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 20, 2021

Zbanic is not only making a memorial; she asks painful, vital questions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2021