Jessica Kiang: Berlin Review: Hans Steinbichler's 'The Diary Of Anne Frank'. The Playlist, 20. Februar 2016, abgerufen am 22. Februar 2016: „a diary is a first-person work, while a film favors a third-person point of view, however partial. […] Her diary is what makes us think of Anne as a person; it hurts, indefinably, to see her as a plot.“
Jessica Kiang: Berlin Review: Hans Steinbichler's 'The Diary Of Anne Frank'. The Playlist, 20. Februar 2016, abgerufen am 22. Februar 2016: „As history's extraordinary everygirl, no one should meet Anne Frank trapped in the amber of a historical biopic, when on the page, in her own hand, she was so completely free.“