No Other Land
| Release Date: November 1, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
93
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TheWrapChase HutchinsonFeb 11, 2025
It’s a compassionately constructed film — it never looks away from the agony before us, and the subject is of the utmost importance. Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesTim GriersonFeb 7, 2025
No Other Land’s sense of grim futility is very much the point — it’s what the strong count on in order to suppress those who oppose them. Anyone who sees this devastating film may share in that sense of hopelessness. But we can no longer say we had no idea what was going on. Read full review
100
Washington PostTy BurrFeb 6, 2025
No Other Land, the Oscar-nominated documentary (and odds-on favorite to win), is the record of an atrocity: the erasure of a people from the land on which they’ve lived for centuries. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 5, 2025
It’s a riveting and humane experience pulled from the rubble of a never-ending war. Read full review
100
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonFeb 3, 2025
Its subject — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — couldn’t be more consequential, and its approach, which includes a directorial team of two Israelis and two Palestinians, feels genuinely daring and bold. Read full review
100
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyNov 1, 2024
No Other Land is a portrait of relentless cruelty, but it is also a portrait of the resilience of this besieged community. Read full review
100
The GuardianAdrian HortonOct 17, 2024
No Other Land, for its many images of despair, still offers a stirring vision for what could be – Israelis and Palestinians working together in the name of justice, collaborating toward a world where both are free. Read full review
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 10, 2024
Perhaps the greatest achievement of No Other Land lies in the way it compresses time. Read full review
100
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 23, 2024
Witnessing is the most effective defense people have against occupation, and the Israeli military, like all thieves, wilts in the face of being watched. The footage is out there, and it’s rarely been assembled into a more concise, powerful, and damning array than it is here. Now it only has to be seen. Read full review
90
ColliderJeff EwingFeb 6, 2025
It's a heartbreaking on-the-ground look at the human cost of the Israeli government's settlement policy that must be seen. Read full review
90
Little White LiesFatima SheriffNov 8, 2024
No Other Land exemplifies the bravery and patience of activists and journalists. The occupation started over 70 years ago, and together, this unlikely pair capture its inhumanity with humanity. Read full review
90
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 23, 2024
Given the conditions of its production, No Other Land would be vital even in a more ragged form. But the filmmaking here is tight and considered, with nimble editing (by the directors themselves) that captures the sense of time at once passing and looping back on itself. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeFeb 23, 2024
The film stays close to its subjects and testifies to the resilience of the Masafer Yatta community. It takes courage and conviction to rebuild after every act of destruction. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerFeb 6, 2025
No Other Land is inherently hopeful. Even as the bulldozers rumble, and soldiers take the safety off around kids, and goons point cameras in Abraham’s face and threaten Facebook-fueled revenge, there’s hope that the juggernaut of oppression can be stopped. Read full review
88
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenFeb 21, 2025
In spite of the clinical approach the filmmakers bring to No Other Land, the activist documentary nevertheless enrages. It boggles the mind (and moral compass) to watch ludicrously overarmed Israeli forces repeatedly destroy the homes, schools, and water-supply systems of Palestinian families who have lived on the land in question since before the establishment of the state of Israel. Read full review
88
The Associated PressMark KennedyFeb 5, 2025
No Other Land is a piece of resistance but also humanization. Read full review
88
Slant MagazinePat BrownSep 2, 2024
With exceptional lucidity, No Other Land reminds us of the human stakes of Israel’s resettlement of the West Bank, and that fighting for justice starts from the ground up. Read full review
83
The Film StageRory O'ConnorFeb 23, 2024
It is a story about power and it needs to be told. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeNov 11, 2024
The friendship that grows between the two is a splinter of hope in an otherwise increasingly bleak situation. Read full review
80
Time OutOlly RichardsNov 7, 2024
It’s a moving, challenging watch. Read full review
80
The TimesKevin MaherNov 7, 2024
The film is consistently gripping and harrowing, while including delicate moments of optimism, where Abraham and Adra enjoy quiet conversations (sometimes beautifully shot by Szor) over a hookah pipe at night. And then, inevitably, it is back to violence, conflict and hate. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 7, 2024
A sombre, sobering work. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyOct 21, 2024
Along with the documentation of material destruction and displacement, the movie is a record of psychological warfare, of the effort to demolish morale, suppress energy, break will. This, as much as the physical violence that it documents, gives the movie immense moral authority. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyFeb 23, 2024
A documentary that is particularly urgent and eye-opening in the context of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read full review
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