By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu)

"Ozon was wise to translate the story into fiction. In their rawness and their sense of intimacy, the family scenes ferret out the emotional truths behind the bald and bitter facts."

"By The Grace Of God lives in the present, a fast-paced, exciting, beautifully played film that matches Spotlight as a searing portrait of modern heroes who stood up."

"Ozon has made a decent and valuable film, though it often seems like the drama part of a docudrama: some of the scenes feel like respectful re-enactments that could have gone into a documentary."

""By the Grace of God" is an exceptional process movie - patient, lucid, generously human."

"It's strong material, and apt to infuse the viewer with righteous ire."

"By The Grace Of God is nothing special, at least in comparison with the importance of its subject. But it’s quite well acted, and often distressing and distasteful – as of course it should be."

"There's of-the-moment cinema and then there's on-the-moment cinema, ripped so freshly from the headlines that the filmmaking still bears a few ink smudges."

"Superbly acted and highly controlled, the film doesn't afford easy entertainment..."

"This is a social justice film made with purposeful conviction and a quiet, never strident, sense of indignation."