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| The Irish TimesTara BradyThis electrifying new film from director Romain Gavras starts as it means to go on: with a riot and fireworks. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriIts subject is timely but its presentation is timeless — it’s a war movie, a family drama, a Greek tragedy. |
| The PlaylistMarshall ShafferEspecially after the film’s stunning conclusion, Athena is destined to leave jaws on the floor and heart rates significantly elevated long after the credits roll. This is the painful, perilous present tense written in the flash of a smartphone camera and the blaze of a Molotov cocktail. |
| Rolling StoneDavid FearIt’s a movie that utilizes every bit of Gavras’ abundant chops and marshals them to make a coherent statement, tapping brains and heart and spleen in the name of forcing you to recognize what he’s putting in front of you. |
| Paste MagazineJacob OllerA war epic between the people and the state, it sprints through a grassroots resistance movement like a brushfire: Blinding, dangerous, all-consuming. |
| PolygonSiddhant AdlakhaAthena is arguably a style-over-substance movie, given how little time and attention it devotes to the personal drama underlying its politics. But in Gavras’ hands, the style is also the substance, with a restrained classicism giving way to baroque staging as each long take accelerates. Scenes build in ways that feel both narratively inevitable and visually prophetic. |
| ObserverDylan RothAthena is shocking, partly because its events seem only about five minutes in our future. One could place its powder keg neighborhood in any city in any divided nation, particularly here in the United States, where another “war that pits brother against brother” seems at least as probable. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzIt is at times brash and thick-headed in its characters and politics, but it is engineered with such an electric ferocity – a beautiful marriage of high-performance technical expertise and gonzo aesthetic imagination – that it cannot help but knock you out. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenWhen it’s clicking—and it mostly clicks—Athena balances aesthetics with import, even interweaving the two into something that has the grave intimacy of Son of Saul and the political potency of The Battle of Algiers. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreAthena becomes a mural of magnificently orchestrated chaos painted over a penny-plain story of brothers in conflict, and one of the most gripping action pictures to come out of France in recent memory. |
