“A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar crises in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and yes, America’s southwestern border, Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border strikes me as the best and most important film to be released in the U.S. so far this year. That judgment is due not only to the fraught importance of the film’s subject but also to the extraordinary artistry of its making. When I first saw it at last fall’s New York Film Festival, I left the theater literally shaken – not only by the compelling story I’d just witnessed but also by the moment-by-moment power of Holland’s filmmaking….Holland was quoted as saying that her movie ‘encourages empathy with migrants trying to enter Poland.’ That simple, accurate description recalls Roger Ebert’s great definition of movies as machines for creating empathy. No recent movie has honored that definition with more geopolitical prescience and humane passion than Green Border.” – Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com

“Green Border is not an easy watch, but it is an indescribably important one, and one of Holland’s most humane and compassionate works yet.”
- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, AWFJ.org

“The haunted faces of actors such as Jalal Altawil are hard to forget. An extended coda, in which Ukrainian refugees are warmly welcomed by the same Polish guards who tormented Syrian refugees, packs a serious punch.”
– Tara Brandy, Irish Times

“Green Border confronts the horror and heroism of the refugee crisis. With pulse-pounding sweep and moral fury, the veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland turns her camera on injustice at the Polish-Belarusian border.”
– Justin Chang, The New Yorker

“4 stars (out of 4) ...Very few things are harder in film to get right than the very recent past. Holland’s film succeeds, and not only because this recent history is not past. It’s prologue.”
– Michael Phillips, Chicago Review