Without make up or any adornments, the haggard Helen Mirren cooks, cleans and growls her way through this intimate, well-handled two-hander opposite the equally able Martina Gedeck.
- Jim Schembri, 3AW, July 20, 2012
An absorbing and complex character drama, but one that's difficult to connect to at times.
- Julian Wood, FILMINK (Australia), July 18, 2012
There's something quite haunting about the relationship between the two women: in some surprising ways, this is a determinedly unsentimental work.
- Philippa Hawker, The Age (Australia), July 18, 2012
Seems like a creative miscalculation by all concerned. The dialogue is clumsy in translation, the great director István Szabó seems to have lost his subtlety and his eye for performance
- Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile, July 14, 2012
The film has a formality and stilted quality about it that is distancing
- Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile, July 14, 2012
Mirren and Gedeck shine but stirring Hungarian drama has its faults.
- Don Groves, sbs.com.au, July 08, 2012
Visually, there's an elegance to "The Door" that feels both a virtue and a limitation.
- Michał Oleszczyk, Chicago Sun-Times, March 21, 2013
