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For all its postures of humanism, the film is remarkably cold toward the victim herself, who appears only briefly.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Andy Webster
It is a competent if sometimes heavy-handed affair, a mosaic of fictitious and underexplored characters who hear the assault but are too self-preoccupied to act.
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Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
There's a fundamental lack of dramatic exigency in writer-director Puk Grasten's storytelling.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
It's hard to imagine a dull film based on the infamous Kitty Genovese murder, but Danish filmmaker Puk Grasten's fictional take on the horrific, real-life crime manages the dubious accomplishment.
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The critical failure of 37 — because certainly a film is allowed to have disdain for its characters; there is no law that art must care for its subjects — is the fundamental lack of narrative, or even of tension.
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Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
A drama that plays out as an overdetermined thesis, with Genovese herself (Christina Brucato) a footnote to the darkly stylized plunge into lives of quiet desperation.