San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson

A fascinating documentary that seems to unfold over real time.

Chicago Tribune by Katie Walsh

Gripping, incisive and shockingly powerful, Collective is easily the documentary of the year.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

This is truly a documentary for our times, deserving of widespread exposure.

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

The horrors of Collective are sickeningly specific; the implications, as suggested by its comprehensive indictment of a title, are universal.

CineVue by Christopher Machell

Collective is a brilliant documentary in its own right, but in this time of pandemic, scandal and democratic upheaval it is also the year’s most important.

RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley

Alexander Nanau's Collective has a propulsive energy, relentlessly building in urgency and outrage.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

The cynicism and indifference to suffering is truly horrible, and a kind of insidious evil rises from the screen like carbon monoxide, and also a terrible sadness.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice. But as Collective lays out with anguished detail and a profound, moving sense of decency, it takes stubborn, angry people — journalists, politicians, artists, activists — to hammer at that arc until it starts bending, maybe, in the right direction.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

From its opening moments to the devastating finale, Collective plays like a gripping real-time thriller, merging the reportorial intensity of “Spotlight” with the paranoid uncertainty of “The Manchurian Candidate” as it explores the national fallout of a tragedy that won’t let up.

Austin Chronicle by Josh Kupecki

What makes Nanau’s film utterly compelling is the unfettered access he had to both the Sports Gazette journalists and to Minister of Health Voiculescu. There are no interviews or talking heads here: Everything unfolds as it is happening.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

It’s a taut, intense procedural, with a resonant story that simultaneously follows a journalistic investigation and an attempt to fix a fatally dysfunctional medical bureaucracy—all while criminal organizations, corrupt politicians, and rabble-rousing television hosts work in concert to stymie any real reform.

The Film Stage by Vikram Murthi

Collective sports a procedural-like pace that keeps the information legible and the action linear.

The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

In Collective, Nanau's observational style of filmmaking reaches emotional depths.

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

The film reminds us that without investigative reporting there’s no democracy, and that traditional expectations around impartiality and objectivity may be untenable in the face of horror.

Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

In its narrative tautness, this documentary can hold its own alongside the best of Romania’s contemporary fiction.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz

Rarely, though, has cinema been so devoted to idealizing the importance of journalism than in Collective.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

There’s deja vu in watching Tolontan deal with Romanian TV, which eagerly follows his team’s reporting each night, but which cannot resist from shooting at the messenger when he appears on their talk shows, losing the thread and forgetting the real victims here.