"By turns intimate and expansive, Transit is a thrilling, at times harrowing labyrinth of a movie. Petzold draws from both the traditional European art film and the mainstream commercial cinema without embracing their orthodoxies."

-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times


"It’s a lesson in empathy for the stateless, and yet for all its inferences, both historical and contemporary, there’s a depth of yearning in its heart that’s not so far from Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca."

-- Trevor Johnston, Little White Lies