Once the film gets mired in specifics, it begins to seem like any other Holocaust documentary and loses the sense of relevance and engagement with the now that at first makes it so intriguing.
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10/19/07
Unknown Soldier (2006)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:6
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.1/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 7, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: The Wehrmacht-Exhibition, which was shown in eleven major cities in Germany between 1999 and 2004 and was visited by more than 500,000 attendants, challenged ordinary Germans to rethink what their... [More]
Director: Michael Verhoeven
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Top CriticThe film eventually becomes one long therapy session for the German nation as it struggles to understand how its brave and good soldiers could have done such bad, bad things.
09/18/07
Top CriticIt is a painful but important subject, to be certain, but the film dilutes its own effectiveness by devolving into a collection of talking heads who often seem to be repeating each other.
09/13/07
Is such footage appropriate to the big-screen environment of the cinema?
09/10/07
German director Michael Verhoeven returns to his country's Nazi past with this searing documentary about the aftershocks of a controversial museum exhibition that rattled the conscience of a nation.
09/07/07
Structurally, the film itself is a pristine example of levelheaded journalism.
09/06/07
Much too much weight for a 97-minute film to bear.
09/06/07
As Verhoeven's film makes clear, many thousands of surviving German veterans, along with a disturbing quotient of their children and grandchildren, are much too eager to make excuses.
09/06/07
Top CriticEven if you've watched archival evidence of the Holocaust before, anyone with a soul and a functioning conscience intact ought to brace yourself to be sickened afresh by this nauseating, if necessary, reminder of man's inhumanity to man. Never again!
09/06/07
Another apt title for Michael Verhoeven's new film could be It's All True.
08/28/07
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