The Voice of Hind Rajab

The negative score is partly for the film-making, which might be one of the more flat and dramatically inert “voice on the phone” dramas that have emerged in recent years, though low-key and earnest performances from the cast help keep things on track. Unfortunately the decision to use the real child’s phone calls as part of the narrative may well have been used with the best of intentions, but it gives the film a grubby and manipulative pall that it simply can’t recover from, making the film an almost skin-crawling snuff film in ultimate execution (pun more or less intended).