Quote:
"Trinidadian lawyer and war hero Ulric Cross is not a name known to the public, but this engrossing biographical drama-documentary [Hero] shows how his life and times joined the dots between WWII valour and the tricky post-colonial transition for several new African republics. There's a little footage of Cross himself, resilient though ailing towards the end of his life—he passed away in 2013 at the age of 96—but to a great extent this is a reconstruction, scripted for actors, using a wealth of cannily chosen archive footage to fill in the backgrounds. Anglo-Trinidadian filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon evidently had to work with modest budgetary means, but she deftly integrates newly shot interiors and car and train journeys within the fabric of vintage newsreel in a way that, while not exactly seamless, nevertheless draws us into the reality of these events and Cross's place in them."
-- Trevor Johnston

Source:
Johnston, Trevor. "Hero." Review of Hero. Sight & Sound, vol. 29, no. 10, October 2019. (p. 63)