Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Netflix | Release Date: October 9, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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11
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1
Negative:
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91
The PlaylistKen GuidryOct 8, 2015
This is a documentary that reminds you of the resiliency of the human spirit. The resourcefulness that can take place when you have nowhere else to run. Read full review
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IndieWireEric KohnOct 5, 2015
With up-close footage of police beatings and hordes of angry protestors calling for the country's president to resign, Winter on Fire features the intensity of an action movie and the fury of a clear-eyed polemic. Read full review
90
TheWrapTricia OlszewskiOct 10, 2015
The documentary is a testament to the human spirit, to unity in times of depravation, to the ability of common individuals to effect change at the highest level. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.O. ScottOct 8, 2015
What Winter on Fire lacks in journalistic detachment it more than makes up for in fidelity to the feelings and motives of the participants. It’s more than just a portrait of terror, anger, desperation and resolve; it communicates those emotions directly, into the bloodstream and nervous system of the audience. Read full review
90
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlOct 8, 2015
Winter on Fire's thrilling rebellion is neither the beginning nor the end, but it is at least a truly heartening middle. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOct 8, 2015
Winter on Fire never takes its eye off the story's underlying and very dramatic theme, and that would be nothing less than revolution. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanFeb 11, 2016
Winter on Fire has all the immediacy and power of drama. If it lacks the dispassionate context of more balanced journalism, it makes up for it with a complex, contradictory emotional impact that is simultaneously demoralizing and hopeful. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireOct 9, 2015
Though the film is limited by a point of view that’s too polemically reductive, the idealistic, difficult, sometimes lethal struggles it covers are undeniably revelatory and moving. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineOleg IvanovOct 8, 2015
This is activist filmmaking that manages to be both angry and elegiac in its recounting of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberOct 8, 2015
Although the film might have benefited from a deeper investigation of the background to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the vivid scenes of protest in the capital city of Kiev supply undeniable power. Read full review
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Screen DailyDan FainaruOct 8, 2015
More like the testimony of an enthusiastic, fully committed supporter watching, in close-up, a populatoon reclaiming its rights, Afineevsky’s film accepts as a basic premise that Yanukevych is the villain. Anyone who differs should look elsewhere. Read full review
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VarietyJay WeissbergOct 8, 2015
Getting swept up in the immediate excitement is entirely understandable, but ignoring the less savory elements, such as ultra-nationalist rhetoric, is problematic at best. Read full review
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