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The film has problems, despite the inarguable worthiness of the material. Mar 6, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The film has problems, despite the inarguable worthiness of the material.
Mick LaSalle
I'm not a fan of reenactments in documentaries, especially when, as here, the real-life footage is so searing. But the staged sequences are tastefully done... This film is itself an important act of historical reclamation. Feb 15, 2019 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
I'm not a fan of reenactments in documentaries, especially when, as here, the real-life footage is so searing. But the staged sequences are tastefully done... This film is itself an important act of historical reclamation.
Peter Rainer
Though its form is complex, including archival scenes that include concentration camp-type footage, the film's emotional through line is clear and direct. Jan 31, 2019 | Full Review…
Though its form is complex, including archival scenes that include concentration camp-type footage, the film's emotional through line is clear and direct.
Kenneth Turan
A vital and sobering documentary... Jan 19, 2019 | Full Review…
A vital and sobering documentary...
Owen Gleiberman
Regardless of its missteps, Grossman's film should be seen as a necessary introduction to a multitude of stories warranting greater analysis. Jan 18, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Regardless of its missteps, Grossman's film should be seen as a necessary introduction to a multitude of stories warranting greater analysis.
Matt Fagerholm
A deeply moving history-behind-the-history. Jan 17, 2019 | Full Review…
A deeply moving history-behind-the-history.
John DeFore
There are those, of course, who don't like to be reminded once again of this history. There are those who deny these events ever happened. So yes, this is a story that needs to be told again and again. Jan 17, 2020 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
There are those, of course, who don't like to be reminded once again of this history. There are those who deny these events ever happened. So yes, this is a story that needs to be told again and again.
Robert Roten
Though it goes to very dark places, Grossman's film emerges as a story of triumph, a testament to the value and power of archive work, and a tale full of hope. Nov 25, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Though it goes to very dark places, Grossman's film emerges as a story of triumph, a testament to the value and power of archive work, and a tale full of hope.
Jennie Kermode
Grossman's film employs archival photos and videos, but it also illustrates the powerful writings from the unearthed archive with reenactments. Some of these lack the power of the original material. But any more wartime footage would be hard to take. Nov 22, 2019 | Full Review…
Grossman's film employs archival photos and videos, but it also illustrates the powerful writings from the unearthed archive with reenactments. Some of these lack the power of the original material. But any more wartime footage would be hard to take.
Catherine Capellaro
It's really quite striking. First of all, the actual content of the film is devastating... [And] it's not a documentary. I think we need a new term for what this is. Sep 17, 2019 | Full Review…
It's really quite striking. First of all, the actual content of the film is devastating... [And] it's not a documentary. I think we need a new term for what this is.
Tim Cogshell
Who Will Write Our History does a good job telling this great but little known story from simple proofs of everyday life and death of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. May 16, 2019 | Rating: 7.5/10 | Full Review…
Who Will Write Our History does a good job telling this great but little known story from simple proofs of everyday life and death of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
Hanna B
If the phrase "History is written by the victors" has become a truism, here is the film that takes the would-be victor, fascism, and transforms its own records and documents into a mirror of its perfidy. Mar 22, 2019 | Full Review…
If the phrase "History is written by the victors" has become a truism, here is the film that takes the would-be victor, fascism, and transforms its own records and documents into a mirror of its perfidy.
Toba Singer
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