“One of the most moving and brutally honest films about suicide ever made…remarkably free of religious cant and of cozy New Age bromides. Eerie and indelible.”
— Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“The Bridge is both a beautiful film and a disturbing one, and the connection between those two characteristics makes it the most disquieting of documentaries.”
— Kenneth Turan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
“An essential piece of journalistic filmmaking: It de-romanticizes the idea of suicide by italicizing it in all its bleak, brutal reality, while making palpable the tortured predicament of those left behind.”
— Jan Stuart, NEW YORK NEWSDAY
“Four Stars (Hightest Rating). “[The Bridge] is brave and unflinching, unshakably haunting and deeply mysterious. I doubt I’ll forget it until the day I die.”
— Jim Emerson, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
“The real item under consideration here is the movie itself, and the bottom line is that it lands in a humane place. The overall effect of the film is broadening. To see it is to dread the bridge jumps and to come away with a feeling of compassion and empathy.”
— Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“A serious, wrenching and oddly poetic documentary.”
— Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
“A brutally discouraging spectacle, presented without a hint of sensationalism, and perhaps it is the film’s eerie placidity that makes the sudden fatalities, so devoid of drama, all the more disquieting.”