"The film draws you in from the first minutes, it is shot with verve and panache, and it does not lack moving and brutal scenes. At the same time, it is devoid of cheap sentimentality. Despite the expected happy ending,  the authenticity and emotions bursting out of the screen feel as if the film was made by the creators of the best American prison dramas" — Onet

"A mixture of the miserablist prison drama and good old-fashioned police procedural, "25 Years of Innocence" plays like Shawshank Redemption stripped of any feel-good moments. A grim yet eventually hopeful examination of a true case of wrongful imprisonment in Poland, this true-life story has the potential to be a crossover success. — DMovies 

"A solid, well-made feature debut (...) [It] is the sort of film that it's impossible to enjoy, while at the same time, you know perfectly well that it's actually pretty good" " — Marta Balaga, Cineuropa