Burning Bush
Kino Lorber | Release Date: June 11, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comScout TafoyaJun 13, 2014
In the end, all that can be relied upon are objects and gestures. The littlest things that tie us to each other. The film often slows to a standstill to show children playing, cars passing, people talking and streets emptied of traffic. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 10, 2014
Ms. Holland, working from a script by Stepan Hulik, a Czech screenwriter born in 1984, turns a sprawling story into a tight and suspenseful ethical thriller. Read full review
83
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJun 13, 2014
Political thriller, procedural, emotional drama and rousing cry for basic human rights and values. Read full review
80
The DissolveJordan HoffmanJun 10, 2014
Burning Bush is a rare accomplishment. It’s a political film with clear heroes and villains, and true to its HBO roots, it works as a fleet-of-foot juicy plot-delivery system. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonJun 10, 2014
A deluxe multi-character drama that blends real history with semi-fictionalized spy thriller and soap opera elements, Burning Bush feels in places like an extended Czech remake of the Cold War-themed German Oscar-winner The Lives of Others. Read full review
80
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 10, 2014
For all the hurtling plot, and its occasional workaday scenecraft, Burning Bush proves an engrossing historical drama, low-key but in its final moments devastating. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJun 11, 2014
On the whole, though, Burning Bush is an absorbing docudrama that maintains a gratifying equilibrium between hope and cynicism. You can fight City Hall. It just takes a while. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineEla BittencourtJun 10, 2014
The decentralized narrative benefits from the film's original conception as a miniseries, with plenty of time to draw us into the morass that was the communist state. Read full review
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