S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:29
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:May 19, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Attempting to make peace between Cambodian torture survivors and the Khmer Rouge soldiers who brutalized them, the documentary S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE takes a close-up look at the the... [More]
Director: Rithy Panh
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Reviews for S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
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A- |
Offers one of the most powerful and unforgettable looks at evil. Full Review |
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4/5 |
...a powerful film indeed. Full Review |
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“S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” makes an articulate and cogent argument that should be seen and heard. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Panh ... simply lets his subjects tell the story, and the words create an unrelenting and often hard-to-take portrait of a national despair. Full Review |
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A potent reminder that history is glutted with proof that trials, convictions and imprisonment for those accused of crimes against humanity offer no deterrent. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It's quietly effective and serves as stark reminder of the horrors that can result from blind obedience. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
It's not the kind of movie you would want to see more than once, but it opens your eyes to another period in history when man shows his capacity for inhumanity. Full Review |
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A haunting look at the historical amnesia that envelops countries or regimes after officially sanctioned barbarism. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A necessary and haunting examination of how corrupt systems can create corrupt individuals to serve them. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It is not a film—which unflinchingly captures a still festering wound on humanity—you are likely to forget. Full Review |
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A modest but nonetheless devastating documentary. Full Review |
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Cinema at its most intellectually honest and morally necessary. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Devastating. Full Review |
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oddly liquid Full Review |
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B |
Moves very slowly and tends to be repetitive, but it has a simmering intensity beneath its deceptively placid surface...quietly devastating. Full Review |
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B+ |
At a moment when issues of torture loom so large in our world, S21 testifies to the chilling ease with which ordinary men can cross the line into homicidal sadism. Full Review |
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A history lesson both invaluable and horrific. Full Review |
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