For the first half of this spellbinding — and unexpectedly gut-wrenching — little film, there’s barely any dialogue at all.

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

A blunt, breathless, and astoundingly unsentimental morality play that’s told with the intensity of a ticking-clock thriller, Wolfgang Fischer’s Styx is every bit as ominous as its title suggests, and far less fanciful.

The film is a penetrating an indictment of the bureaucratic obstacles placed in front of refugees.

Keith Watson

Slant Magazine