Screen Daily by Mark Adams

At heart Dreamcatcher is a simple film, but it is also a rigorous and compassionate one.

Screen International by Mark Adams

At heart Dreamcatcher is a simple film, but it is also a rigorous and compassionate one.

The Playlist

Dreamcatcher is a love letter to a true American hero who roams our streets.

Los Angeles Times

While Dreamcatcher lays bare some of the horrific violence and victimization that many women face, the film is ultimately hopeful, a testament to the strength and resilience that can be found in sisterhood.

Variety by Guy Lodge

Conventionally constructed but remarkable for the honest, intimate rapport it achieves with highly vulnerable human subjects.

CineVue

Longinotto's film shines a light on Brenda and her colleagues' important contribution to changing both the legal system's attitude to prostitution, and to the empowerment of women, who are shown that if they want to change their lives, there is someone there who can help them achieve it.

The Guardian

It’s grim, unfussy and deeply moving.

Empire by David Parkinson

A sensitive, sincere and humbling profile which is truly inspirational.

Time Out London by Cath Clarke

Dreamcatcher is harrowing.

The Telegraph by Mike McCahill

Longinotto and editor Ollie Huddleston stitch it, with lightness and dexterity, into a wholly edifying, often stirring tapestry of survivors’ stories.

The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

Just as Brenda lives by a credo never to judge another woman, so too does the film, which creates an uplifting portrait of redemption and acceptance.