[T]he footage of mass progressive mobilizations serves as a timely reminder that there are countless like-minded people that are outraged and ready to push back to defend the rights they have attained over the decades.

| Nov 20, 2020

Petra Costa's Oscar-winning documentary, stalking the rise and fall of two Brazilian Presidents during the country's socio-political crisis, is unflinchingly personal, and challenges our perception of "political" filmmaking.

| Oct 28, 2020

[Has] the rhythm and intensity of a political thriller. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2020

The Edge of Democracy is visually powerful and also benefits from behind-the-scenes access to Lula, Dilma, and their advisers that would be the envy of any filmmaker or journalist.

| May 29, 2020

This very the personal is political documentary looks at the presidencies of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 19, 2020

There's a lot of ground to cover, but Costa keeps a strong grip on the material

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2020

A poet interprets and communicates the world through metaphors and allegories found in everyday life in order to express not only what she sees, but how she feels about what she sees - and Petra Costa has the soul of a poet. [Full review in Portuguese]

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

Her (Petra Costa) outrage and sorrow are palpable and heartbreaking.

| Jan 24, 2020

We would all do well to watch and learn, lest our own fragile democracies, no matter where we are or what we think of them, fall off their crumbling edges into the abyss.

| Jan 23, 2020

The Edge of Democracy is a history of parliamentary immunity and hidden recordings... And history, in Brazil, does not cease rewriting itself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 22, 2020

[Petra] Costa has a painterly way with film, and in dealing with her homeland's history, turmoil and tragedy she is working on an epic scale.

| Dec 27, 2019

This works very well as both a primer on the tumultuous last several years of Brazilian politics and also as a very passionate personal essay film.

| Oct 1, 2019

The Edge of Democracy is easily one of the great works of documentary this year. It is a riveting experience; an impeccably edited navigation of Brazil's volatile relationship with democracy...

| Original Score: A | Jul 4, 2019

Costa's personal, unforgettable rumination on modern Brazilian politics is now on Netflix and is one of the great political documentaries of 2019.

| Jun 25, 2019

A hard-hitting documentary about the fall of democracy in Brazil.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 21, 2019

Costa manages to craft an intimate primer about the state's descent into populism and the fraying of the country's democratic fabric.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2019

Engrossing...

| Jun 20, 2019

[Petra Costa] seems utterly incapable of crafting a frame that is lacking in urgency or vibrance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 20, 2019

An angry, intimate, and haunting portrait of Brazil's recent slide back into the open jaws of dictatorship.

| Original Score: B | Jun 19, 2019

The Edge of Democracy is not an impartial piece of journalistic filmmaking; indeed, Costa makes no pretensions to objectivity. She weaves in her own family's story and the film takes on the quality of a lament.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 19, 2019