U - July 22's reviews
Media reviews
Cine Premiere
El Mundo
Indiewire
The film has the power to make our bodies catch up with our hearts ? the power to help us safely experience the kind of terror we need to remember in a way that makes it impossible for us to forget.
The Guardian
And after 72 minutes (the length of the ordeal in real life) the gut wrenching action of the film is at an end. It feels simultaneously much shorter and much longer than 72 minutes. It is an absorbing and moving tribute to the courage of the young victims of Utøya.
Variety
There's no denying the technical skill of Erik Poppe's one-take recreation of the Utøya massacre, but everything else about it is up for debate.
The Hollywood Reporter
For this critic, the events in the home stretch finally feel too much like concessions to the necessities of the laws of fictional drama, with first an unexpected twist followed by a melodramatic one. They cheapen the experience because the documentary illusion is ruined as the work?s fictional gears, until that point perhaps only visible in the background, grind into full view.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote