Liberation Day
Dogwoof Global Sales | Release Date: October 18, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 16, 2017
The mystery remains: did the North Koreans get it? Did they not get it? Or did they choose a foggy condition of semi-incomprehension as the only state in which they could reconcile ideological piety with reaching out the hated west? Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeOct 16, 2017
Billed as a “documentary musical,” this potential crowd-pleaser gets considerable comic mileage out of the friction between two very different brands of cultural eccentricity — but it succeeds as more than a diverting novelty, packed as it is with pointed observations on diplomacy and censorship in a country that’s still a mystery to many. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayOct 26, 2017
More detail about how this concert came to be — and what it means to both the performers and their patrons — would’ve made Liberation Day more illuminating, at least as a piece of journalism. But there’s a subtly meaningful power to what the film actually does. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 18, 2017
Rather than spend more time with the band, Traavik tries to milk additional drama from North Korea’s diplomatic tensions. Read full review
63
Slant MagazinePeter GoldbergOct 15, 2017
Throughout, the documentary wavers between a sincere investigation of the avant-garde music group Laibach and self-satire. Read full review
60
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 18, 2017
Liberation Day, a documentary of preparations for the concert directed by Mr. Traavik and Ugis Olte, is a consistently understated chronicle of Westerners who are very carefully playing with fire. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckOct 17, 2017
The odd subject matter should have made for a riveting film, but, like many documentaries, Liberation Day (the title refers to the North Korean holiday celebrating the anniversary of the end of Japanese rule) feels both too short and too long. Read full review
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