Metacritic reviews

This is truly a documentary for our times, deserving of widespread exposure.

Gripping, incisive and shockingly powerful, Collective is easily the documentary of the year.

A fascinating documentary that seems to unfold over real time.

Collective sports a procedural-like pace that keeps the information legible and the action linear.

It’s a taut, intense procedural, with a resonant story that simultaneously follows a journalistic investigation and an attempt to fix a fatally dysfunctional medical bureaucracy—all while criminal organizations, corrupt politicians, and rabble-rousing television hosts work in concert to stymie any real reform.

In Collective, Nanau's observational style of filmmaking reaches emotional depths.

The film reminds us that without investigative reporting there’s no democracy, and that traditional expectations around impartiality and objectivity may be untenable in the face of horror.

In its narrative tautness, this documentary can hold its own alongside the best of Romania’s contemporary fiction.

There’s deja vu in watching Tolontan deal with Romanian TV, which eagerly follows his team’s reporting each night, but which cannot resist from shooting at the messenger when he appears on their talk shows, losing the thread and forgetting the real victims here.

Rarely, though, has cinema been so devoted to idealizing the importance of journalism than in Collective.