"Hard to See, Impossible to Ignore": Barren Documentary Reviewers

Interviews with military insiders on massacre of civilians in Gaza receive widespread praise Critics worldwide have hailed the NAZA award-winning documentary as a "brilliant and harrowing" film that is "impossible to ignore." Naza, produced by the Guardian and detailing Israel's massacre of civilians in Gaza, was released in UK cinemas this week and has been released in more than 50 countries.

Critics around the world have praised the NAZA award-winning documentary as a "brilliant and harrowing" film that is "impossible to ignore."

Naza, produced by the Guardian and detailing Israel's massacre of civilians in Gaza, opened in UK cinemas this week and will be shown in more than 50 countries. In addition to its worldwide cinema release, NAZA will be available on the Guardian website from late November.

This investigative documentary, which includes 24 interviews with IDF insiders who speak anonymously at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, has been widely acclaimed.

Danny Lee of the Financial Times said in a five-star review that as a piece of cinema, "journalism and filmmaking are brilliantly intertwined". The Times called the film "a deeply provocative and disturbing account" of Israel's massacre of civilians in Gaza, and The Irish Times called Naza "the quintessential record of an engineered nightmare." In a four-star review, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw says, "Gaza's pain is understated."

British Vogue called Naza a "brilliant and harrowing film" that paints a "limited, accurate picture of Gaza's progressive disappearance". The magazine says the film "is destined to become a lasting historical document, one that future generations will and must see."

Time Out Magazine says Naza assembles a concise, intelligent, detailed, detailed and utterly damning case against Israel's actions in Gaza and their continued actions in the region. As a cinematic work, it is exemplary. As a journalistic work, it is indisputable. As a document, it is an indictment."

The New York Times called the film a "Critics' Choice" and called Naza a "captivating" documentary that is "hard to watch and impossible to ignore." The Los Angeles Times says NAZA is a "so scary" movie that "burns the conscience". And in New York magazine, it was mentioned as "one of the most important films of our time".

The Hollywood Reporter hails Naza as a "consciously well-documented bombshell of revelations" that "leaves one with the deathly sense that humanity may have lost all hope". The Toronto Star says, "Nazza is a harrowing but necessary spectacle, questioning the systems that cause civilian deaths in modern warfare."

Spanish magazine El Mundo hailed Naza as "the film of our time, an extraordinary, electrifying and devastating documentary about the systematic model of destruction of the Palestinian people" that ultimately "points the finger at us". At night, in silence."

French newspaper Le Monde said the film had "an uppercut effect that stuns the viewer," while Danish culture magazine Soundvenue called Naza "a searing testimony to the genocide in Gaza" that "exemplifies how the world increasingly looks like a dystopia."

The UAE state-run newspaper National NAZA a "very difficult film to watch" and an editorial in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the film "tries to force Israelis to confront what they already know: that Israel's behavior in the Gaza war has left a black mark".

When the film was released in Italy last month, it topped the charts. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera says Naza "lasts only 80 minutes, but it doesn't need more than that: the 'scientific' coldness with which the interviewees reconstruct how Gaza was destroyed is unforgettable."

The film contains 24 interviews with Israeli military insiders, detailing how an artificial intelligence-assisted mass surveillance system was activated during the Gaza war and the systems used to target Hamas operatives with the knowledge that large numbers of Palestinian civilians would also die.

Various organizations, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, B'Tselem and Doctors for Human Rights, the latter two of which are based in Israel, have said that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation for 25 minutes - a festival record. This documentary won the special prize of the jury.