Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Il film di Joshua Oppenheimer, prodotto da Werner Herzog ed Errol Morris racconta entrambe le cose, creando un cortocircuito cinematografico, storico, sociologico, come raramente è accaduto sul grande schermo.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Anwar Congo may be the scariest person you’ll see on screen this year.
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: The brilliance of The Act of Killing is that it never lets you fall into the trap of believing that these men are monsters who you can dismiss as anomalies who were able to kill people indiscriminately because of the time and place.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: This is a horrifying, unflinching film with Congo serving as the darkest heart of a past that continues to go unpunished and seems ready to repeat itself at any moment.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: What ultimately comes through is that this shines a light on a pernicious evil that has gone unaddressed for far too long. It refuses to look away and while providing a voice for the murderers, it indirectly provides a voice for the incredible number of people whose lives were ended.
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: The film’s main novelty is the fact that it contains interviews with wholly unrepentant murderers and a lot of the most shocking scenes are both evil and banal. However, we are given very little insight into Oppenheimer’s dealing with these people and, hence, his own culpability with the evil we see and hear.
- [New – 1/23/14] | Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: A stunning balancing act of truth and meta-fiction.
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The absence of a sense of guilt is stunning and chilling. It’s surreal, phantasmagorical, and utterly devastating.
- Diego Salgado @ Cine para Leer [Spanish]
- Norm Schrager @ Meet In the Lobby
- Don Simpson @ Smells Like Screen Spirit
- Excerpt: The Act of Killing is basically the creepiest behind-the-scenes, “making of” documentary ever made.
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Kill a man and you go to prison. Kill a thousand men, and you celebrate the feat by making a movie where dancing girls in pink chiffon strut out of a giant goldfish’s mouth.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: At once the most micro and meta combination of cinéma vérité, documentary, and docudrama filmmaking techniques ever assembled, Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” is an earth-shattering cinematic experience.
- Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Whatever else can be said about this film, there may be no greater compliment to offer it than saying the prospect of rewatching The Act of Killing is impossible to imagine.
- Ron Wilkinson @ ItsJustMovies.com
- Excerpt: A film that would be a satire were it not so chillingly real.
