Reseñas de la crítica

The film unfolds seamlessly, with a brisk tempo and a cool, gray look that match its straightforward depiction of the crew's wheeling and dealing... Adrian Sitaru, directing a script by Adrian and Claudia Silisteanu, seems to be building toward some explosive revelation; it never comes, though the climax and conclusion, focusing on the protagonist's moral and ethical growth, are quietly satisfying.

There's no Spotlight moment to this film: It exhausts every possible apprehension of journalistic success, putting the viewer as deep in the quagmire as its tenuous protagonists, with only a sliver of notional relief ahead. It also packs perhaps the most bittersweet coda I've seen on a movie screen this calendar year. As one chain-smoking flack offers Radu early in his quest for the almighty exclusive, "Enough is as good as a feast.

This proves a heavy load for this earnest but overstated social drama whose real point of interest and its most interesting part remains the authentic case on which it is based... The rest of Sitaru's undoubtedly noble and sincere intentions are reliant on a plot that doesn't really hold up and often looks like a subterfuge to flesh the story out into feature-length dimensions.

Aside from one (very well-acted) long-take sequence in which Radu and his colleagues tentatively invade a source's cramped apartment, the film is shot and edited with a slick, pedestrian clarity. What's good here is the way that Istodor evinces an internal struggle without turning the character into the sort of anguished cipher that usually figures in this sort of moral tale. His fine performance goes a long way in keeping The Fixer engaging.