"Stander is an exciting, hard-driving, fast moving gangster picture and a sharp commentary on apartheid. As perceptive as it is vigorous, Stander crackles with forceful portrayals. Funny, violent, impassioned and inescapably poignant..."
-- Los Angeles Times review of Stander

"Watching the film is like seeing a gallery of Renaissance paintings come to life... to imagine the people envisioned and captured by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Titian performing Shakespeare is to appreciate anew both the strangeness and vitality of early modern Europe, and to approach a visual understanding of the intellectual and artistic eclecticism that characterized the age..." -- New York Times review of Merchant of Venice

A selection of reviews of films produced by Julia Verdin/Rough Diamond Productions:

HM Magazine review of The Least Among Us
New York Times review of Merchant of Venice
Daily Variety review of Merchant of Venice
Entertainment Weekly review of Stander
People Magazine review of Stander
New York Times review of Stander
Variety review of Stander
Independent UK review of Stander
Venice Magazine review of Stander
Premiere Magazine review of Stander
LA Times review of Stander
Hollywood Life review of Stander