Metacritic reviews

Tense, smartly crafted and highly resonant, Aliyah is one of the best films so far this year.

A marvelous film, stripped of false urgency.

This smart, sober movie makes you feel the full weight of the challenges he faces.

[An] intimate and dexterous debut feature.

Wajeman is particularly skillful at obscuring the lines between right and wrong, setting his story in a a dog-eat-dog world whose moral compass is slightly askew.

At first, Elie Wajeman’s moody French drama looks like so many other stories to come before it.

There’s no sense of what Wajeman is after here. A character piece should have some sense of a character’s who, what and why, right?