'A No Exit experience directed with rigor and precision down to the smallest detail, camera movement, gesture, even the pronunciation of every word – it's perfection pure and simple. Tough, unflinching, and fearless.'
- Olaf Müller, Filmcomment
'Part of the novelty and fascination of "The Blacks" is how it incorporates horror tropes - sudden time shifts, a mood of growing dread inside four-walled enclosures...'
- Robert Koehler, Variety
'Running to only 78 minutes, it's a short but effective insight into the tortured minds and frazzled relationships within a squad known as The Blacks on a final, fateful mission.'
- Mike Goodridge, Screen International
'This is a film that says much more about war crimes than any of the bloodspatteredaffairs we are used to be seeing from Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian filmmakers.'
- Vladan Petkoviæ, Cineuropa |
