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A Film Unfinished Review

  • Release Date: Aug 18, 2010
  • Rated:
  • Runtime: 1 hr. 29 min.
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Documentary

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 5.0
    88

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Universal acclaim
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Hersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore

    Hersonski enriches this evidence by bringing in survivors of the ghetto, who tell stories of life there while watching the film themselves.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Village Voice Ella Taylor

    The artificial look of the added footage, counterpointed by the commentary of inmates and survivors, only underscores the unending shock of the film's unadulterated images, even though we have seen them in other Shoah documentaries.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

    Remarkable as much for its speculative restraint as for its philosophical reach.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    It stands as a unique film-within-a-film, of significance for the historical value of the raw images, the memories they spur and internal evidence of how the Nazis staged scenes long assumed to be real.

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