Despite its flaws, the result is sufficiently convincing emotionally to transcend a mere style exercise and allows us to rediscover a Ben Foster that, once again, justifies us to glue our eyes to the screen. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2023

The portrait of the inner torment of a man condemned to live played by a superb Ben Foster, would be hard to disappoint the interested viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 25, 2023

[The Survivor is] a clunky heartfelt period piece that makes up for its wonkiness with a constant thread of forward momentum, respect for the past, and an underlying sense of gratitude.

| Original Score: 60/100 | Nov 18, 2022

Ben Foster's committed performance can't hold up this biopic-by-numbers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2022

The Survivor is the type of film that is worth more for the anecdote than for the film itself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2022

Levinson focuses on producer/star Foster’s powerful performance, physically and the emotions from PTSD. But the women’s roles are particularly sensitive in showing situations during and after the Holocaust not usually seen in commercial American films.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 25, 2022

The Survivor is guaranteed to make you cry, both for its moments of unbearable suffering and for its grace notes of hope.

| Aug 17, 2022

Levinson paints the tormented boxer managing to avoid the banality of Rocky (1976), and touching the most inspired Scorsesian terrors of Raging Bull (1980) and other boxing movies that deal with complicated protagonists... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 7, 2022

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a performance this year that offers as much soul, heart and strength as Ben Foster in 'The Survivor.' You can feel the weight of his pain with his stillness and how he takes in his surroundings.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 29, 2022

Ben Foster portrays Haft, convincingly, at several different ages, and the film has great things to say about inherited trauma, especially the specifically Jewish kind

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 27, 2022

The Survivor is undeniably difficult to watch at times, with myriad moments of viciousness and violence...a story of hope maintained in the face of hopelessness, of good pulled from the gaping maw of evil....A hard watch, yes, but a worthwhile one.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 19, 2022

While this may not rank with Son of Saul or Raging Bull in the top rung, The Survivor is not a film to take for granted.

| May 14, 2022

The performance of Ben Foster is convincing, but this well-intended biopic borders on the watchable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 12, 2022

This is Foster’s show through and through, and with that performance to build a film around, it would be hard for The Survivor to fail.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 10, 2022

Beautifully put together, very well directed, and the acting is superb.

| May 9, 2022

This is excellent... It's beautifully shot and powerfully acted.

| May 9, 2022

Even if The Survivor is not near his best film, its firm devotion to giving Ben Foster the tools to show his range makes it feel like an extended actor’s reel for what he can do and makes the film seem indelible in some ways.

| May 9, 2022

Despite all the reasons it’s worth two hours of your time, you may find yourself wishing there were, in fact, just a bit more to The Survivor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2022

The Survivor deserves a place among the very best movies to depict not only the Holocaust and its victims, but also the battles that raged within those who lived to fight another day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2022

The Survivor benefits from Ben Foster’s searing performance as Harry Haft, which is underscored by harrowing Holocaust-related scenes. But there’s much more of Haft’s story that got left on the cutting room floor, which makes the film feel incomplete.

| May 2, 2022