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.

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.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Beyond the film’s immediacy, “Maidan” is an impressive, bold treatment of a complex subject via rigidly formalist means

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.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

Maidan is a stunning piece of political cinema and a documentary of quietly moving power and beauty.

Empire by David Parkinson

Courageous and indelible account and an invaluable perspective of the protests.

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.

Slant Magazine

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.

Slant Magazine by Oleg Ivanov

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.

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

Maidan is a film of scale and immediacy, finding artistry, for better or worse, in bearing witness.