75
It puts the viewer inside Maidan, allowing them to draw their own conclusions about the ideas and agendas espoused by the movement's leaders and participants.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Maidan is a film of scale and immediacy, finding artistry, for better or worse, in bearing witness.
80
Time Out London by Cath Clarke
Don’t watch this doc for a lesson in the crisis. Maidan is hard work, with no voiceover or interviews and just the odd scrap of information written on screen to guide you through.
80
Courageous and indelible account and an invaluable perspective of the protests.
90
Beyond the film’s immediacy, “Maidan” is an impressive, bold treatment of a complex subject via rigidly formalist means
80
Maidan is a stunning piece of political cinema and a documentary of quietly moving power and beauty.
100
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan harkens back to the heroic, journalistic roots of documentary-making and yet feels ineffably modern and formally daring. It’s a tiny marvel of a movie.
100
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Easily the most rigorous, vital, and powerful movie of 2014, Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan may be a perfect Bazinian cinema-machine — reality is captured, crystallized, honored for its organic complexity, and delivered unpoisoned by exposition or emphasis.
83
The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic
If you have the patience to play the role of silent witness for the full two hours, Maidan is a rewarding experience and an alarmingly important wake-up call for those still in the dark about one of today's most critical situations.