The Encampments
Watermelon Pictures | Release Date: March 28, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeApr 17, 2025
The Encampments is not just critical in capturing the real-time makings of a movement, but in laying bare the consequences of this response. Read full review
80
Little White LiesJosh Slater-WilliamsJun 6, 2025
There is hope: Gazan journalist Bisan Owda is among the talking heads, given appropriate space in the film’s moving closing moments to reflect on the rippling global awakening concerning freedom for the Palestinian people; on the importance of feeling, regardless of how gradually, that they are not alone. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJun 4, 2025
This fine documentary on the Palestine solidarity encampments at Columbia University, in Manhattan, makes much of comparisons with student protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 3, 2025
Too often, in a film about an ostensibly peaceful form of dissent, it feels like adversaries are being targeted, albeit subtly, when the real enemy is war itself. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 3, 2025
Perhaps the full story of the encampments has yet to be told. Read full review
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