it's the excellent casting choices and believable acting that turn this unbelievable series of events into a truly compelling drama

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2023

There are some striking filmmaking choices employed that help make the reenactments more engaging.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2022

The detention center looks like an unrealistic movie version of a detention center ... Although well-intentioned, [The Infiltrators] ... could have been a more impactful film if it let the real people involved tell most of the story, instead of actors.

| Jul 18, 2020

I found it a little unwieldy in the going back-and-forth between the reenactments and the actual people, but I think it's great achievement is that it puts a human face on these immigrants and detainees that we often read about in headlines.

| May 29, 2020

Absorbing and timely. I thought it was really great.

| May 29, 2020

You see that these kids have so much potential to really be great leaders in this country, [but] many of them can't even go to college and so they are using their energy here. It's really spectacular that they're doing that.

| May 29, 2020

The film is never more compelling than when relying on footage of the real radical DREAMer group the National Immigrant Youth Alliance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2020

Hybrid docudrama gives voice to the undocumented.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2020

There are real people involved and 'The Infiltrators' is a film that never lets that the viewers forget.

| Original Score: 4.5 of 5 | May 12, 2020

Might not change enough hearts or minds to get everyone to stop calling undocumented humans "illegals," but it's sure to galvanize viewers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2020

The end result tells a story in a way I've never quite seen, in a film that has the welcome distance of news-oriented documentary with the heart and empathy of a feature film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2020

In our current moment, "The Infiltrators" shows people making the best of a bad situation and finding ways to move forward both as individuals and toward greater common goals.

| May 5, 2020

I don't pretend to have the answers here, but I know the issue isn't being dealt with honestly in this country, and I see a film like "The Infiltrators" as an important tool in reframing the conversation.

| May 3, 2020

It's always my hope that people who refuse to see the humanity in the people they have such strong unfounded hate towards to see films like this.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 3, 2020

As both document and chronicle of radical activism, Rivera and Ibarra's project is a call to action.

| May 1, 2020

At times this mashup of a docu-drama is a little confusing, but bares the desperation of immigrants still present today. Ibarra and Rivera have created a riveting piece of filmmaking that definitely grabs you.

| May 1, 2020

A flawed but important film with a great one straining to break free.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2020

Directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera combine documentary and dramatization with decidedly mixed effect in The Infiltrators.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2020

Directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera take a unique approach to telling this story, which ultimately helps to get the audience invested in the characters and the subject matter.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 30, 2020

The film advances no policies of its own. What it does best is connect human faces to dehumanized places we'd rather not think about.

| Apr 30, 2020