Shoah Reviews
Top Critic[It] has transcended the cinema to become a primary record of the extermination of European Jews during the Second World War.
Why revisit "Shoah'' 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
the film's achievement is to show there are stories worth hearing, and ravaged, resilient faces that reward our scrutiny. The horror, the gallows humor, the shame and the heroism, the lessons of this holocaust -- and all others--have not been exhausted.
At a time when the few remaining witnesses to the Holocaust are passing away, Shoah more than ever stands as a necessary experience.
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| Original Score: A
Lanzmann slowly, cumulatively colors in a vast canvas on mass murder.
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| Original Score: 5/5
There is no proper response to this film. It is an enormous fact, a 550-minute howl of pain and anger in the face of genocide. It is one of the noblest films ever made.
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| Original Score: 4/4
More than a treatment of a great subject, the film itself is a great achievement in form.
