RogerEbert.com by Matt Zoller Seitz

This is one of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark, luxuriating in the vastness of almost-empty avenues lit by buzzing streetlamps. It's a real-life answer to fiction movies like "Taxi Driver," "Bringing Out the Dead," "Collateral," "Nightcrawler" and "The Sweet Smell of Success."

TheWrap by Monica Castillo

Midnight Family is both a compassionate portrait of a working-class family and a frightening ride through a broken healthcare system that risks the lives of both patients and providers like the Ochoa family.

Variety by Nick Schager

Portraits of institutional dysfunction don’t come much more urgent, and quietly bleak, than this.

The A.V. Club by Vikram Murthi

To his credit, Lorentzen never guides the audience’s moral response, allowing us to make up our minds about the Ochoas on a scene-by-scene basis. He also provides ample rationale for their actions by depicting their hand-to-mouth lifestyle alongside the on-the-job drudgery.

Film Threat by Lorry Kikta

It’s a very exciting, sad, yet extremely funny film.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Somehow Lorentzen shows that it is not the Ochoa family who are the bad guys, but the whole rotten system.

The Observer (UK) by Wendy Ide

Captured by a camera that frequently rattles against the sides of the hurtling ambulance, the Ochoas’ night-time escapades are electrifying and urgent, doused in strobing emergency lights and powered by adrenaline.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

An acutely observed and frequently heartbreaking documentary.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

Director Luke Lorentzen (“New York Cuts”) puts us in the front seat of the Med Care van staffed by the men of the Ochoa family, freelance entrepreneurs trying to feed and care for a big family from inside an ambulance. Their story has thrills and compassion, hard luck and grief.

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

It’s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.

The Playlist

A thrilling, subjective, portrait of one family’s attempts to navigate the corrupt economy of emergency health care while, also, providing much-needed services for a city desperately in need of EMTs.

The Playlist by Christian Gallichio

A thrilling, subjective, portrait of one family’s attempts to navigate the corrupt economy of emergency health care while, also, providing much-needed services for a city desperately in need of EMTs.

Los Angeles Times by Carlos Aguilar

What’s indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation.

The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

Though its micro view limits its usefulness in big discussions of public policy — it's easy to imagine American partisans using it as evidence both for and against government-run health care — it is a vivid reminder that all such policies are lived out by millions of individuals, who die every day when things aren't well run.