Fierce and focused...a bracing blast of critical rigour”

— The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw

Nina Menkes’ eye-opening documentary will forever change how you look at films.”

— INDIEWIRE, Kate Erbland

Menkes is a real no-bullshit breath of fresh air. With a torch. And with any luck, she’s heading your way to set fire to something, soon.”

— SCREEN DAILY, Finn Halligan

Accessible, engrossing, urgent, and horrifying…It should be shown at film festivals, in classrooms, in boardrooms; It should be projected onto a building and played on a loop in Studio City.”

— THE PLAYLIST, Lena Wilson

Nina Menkes is going to change the world…Brainwashed is one of the most important films anyone can watch right now!”

— JOEY SOLOWAY, Producer/Director/Writer

Explosive [and] compelling…[Menkes] pulls off the tricky balance of making Brainwashed digestible and illuminating for the casual cinemagoer while being stimulating and paradigm-shifting for fellow filmmakers and scholars of film.”

— THE QUEER REVIEW, James Kleinman

Menkes gives a persuasive, sometimes nightmarish sense of the leering perspectives found across much visual media….What’s most important is how we can act on [the film’s] prescriptions—if it’s not too late.”

— THE FILM STAGE, David Katz

The disruption of traditional power that ‘Brainwashed’ puts forward to the language of cinema is compelling and progressive; it presents a much needed challenge for all filmmakers to find truer ways to depict who we are as people.”

— Isaac Chung, Director of MINARI

The knowledge that took me years of study and practice to acquire is now available to anyone who watches Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power…Through the education that Brainwashed provides, we can make room for the voices these gatekeepers wish to silence.”

— ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS, Marilyn Ferdinand

Subversive!…Menkes is not afraid to take on the film canon, and the directors hailed as the gold standard.”

— FILM THREAT, Ray Lobo