“An extraordinary thriller! One of the fastest, most exciting melodramas ever made!”
– Pauline Kael

“A tightly paced thriller that, as Film Forum’s revival confirms, continues to feel revolutionary.”
– David Fear, Time Out New York

“Produced the template for a thousand political thrillers to come, but the original remains more exciting and more smoothly manipulative than nearly all of its imitators. For 40 years one generation after another have fallen in love with Z...Now Film Forum is brining it back for a post-Bush engagement.”
– The New York Times

“A brilliant suspense thriller. It will make you weep and will make you angry. It will tear your guts out.”
– Roger Ebert

“In its slick cinematic urgency and its outrage..."Z" still has the power to shake you up." 
– Ty Burr,  The Boston Globe

“There wasn’t another movie with such pop and political excitement until Do The Right Thing in 1989-and nothing comparable since. Costa-Gavras makes an urgent, big screen myth…His superb form holds up impressively. The headlong car chases, point-blank fight scenes, a frighteningly up-close street melee lend a propulsive immediacy to the dramatization of political fear. Z agonizes over politics with an ethical intensity that is missing from contemporary thrillers by filmmakers who don’t know the pain of witnessing genuine political horror.”
– Armond White, New York Press

“A landmark international hit.”
– Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald

“A dose of Costa-Gavras’ thriller will rattle you…Remains as fresh as a head wound!”
– David Edelstein, New York Magazine

“A rousing, punchy docudrama…Outclasses same-minded political thrillers. Seethes with vitality thanks to the on-the-fly cinematography and bump-goes-the-corruption score.”
– Flavorpill

“An impressively whirlwind approach to action and exposition. Trintignant’s shades bedecked lawyer is as coolly Zen as a Jean-Pierre Melville protagonist.”
– Keith Ulrich, Time Out New York

“Remember when the movie ads used to say ‘It will knock you out of your seat’? Well, Z damn near does.”
– Pauline Kael