[A] compelling and alarming fact-based drama...

| Oct 26, 2022

The Whistleblower is a strong effort made even more so thanks to the mesmerizing talents of star Rachel Weisz.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2012

The closing minutes of the film suggest the most challenging parts of the story still remains untold.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2011

Instead of capitalising on a really fine performance from Rachel Weisz in the leading role, Kondracki makes a real mess of it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2011

This is a truly depressing film, without any sense of release. You may even be tempted to give up on the human race while watching men casually trade and rape girls for a few measly dollars.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2011

It is no comfort to reflect that The Whistleblower would be a first-rate thriller even if all of it were fiction.

| Sep 28, 2011

"The Whistleblower'' effectively depicts the paranoia that builds as an increasingly frustrated and outraged Bolkovac is thwarted at every turn.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2011

Powerful and revolting, The Whistleblower makes you feel as if it could have been even more powerful and revolting.

| Original Score: B | Aug 26, 2011

If this well-meaning melodrama contains a call to action, it's as quiet as a dog whistle.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2011

You come away from watching the film with a moral bellyache.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 25, 2011

Despite the fact that this issue is the spark that drives the story, the filmmakers have taken considerable care to create a full-bodied drama instead of a talking-points narrative.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2011

Part thriller and part harrowing account of an outrageous, based-on-facts story of official corruption in the former Yugoslavia, "The Whistleblower" is a tense and shattering drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2011

Director Larysa Kondracki's debut film is unsparing in its portrayal of sexual trafficking in a supposedly civilized world. But it's valiant, too -- especially regarding Rachel Weisz's performance as reluctant crusader Kathryn Bolkovac.

| Aug 18, 2011

Derives its strength from Rachel Weisz's intelligent performance as the real-life Bolkovac.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2011

This is a graphic, dark, violent piece of drama, as it should be given its subject matter, but it's the work of one of our best working actresses that truly makes it worth venturing into the darkness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5.0 | Aug 12, 2011

Larysa Kondracki's first feature successfully avoids the major pitfalls of the activist docudrama: the main character's heroism never overshadows the larger issue at hand, nor does exposition gum up the storytelling.

| Aug 12, 2011

In Canadian director Larysa Kondracki's gripping based-on-a-true-story debut feature The Whistleblower, Rachel Weisz delivers a subtle yet riveting performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2011

It remains a solid thriller that, like Bolkovac, never loses sight of what's most important: the victims.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2011

It reminds us that there are those, in war or in peace, who will always seek to degrade and exploit, with a precious few others to speak out against injustice.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2011

A classic example of a film that doesn't trust the strength of its source material - or the intelligence of its audience.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 12, 2011