Home
About OFCS
Member Profiles
Schedule
Forum
Awards
OFCS Blog
O.F.C.S. Members:
Sign In
O.F.C.S. Members
Movie Overview
Director
Claude Lanzmann
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Shoah (1985)
REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
(1 - 5) of 5
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
Page
1
"'Shoah' is difficult to watch, but few other films match its consideration of unspeakable evil and indifference."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
4/4
"Lanzmann builds the past using tools that exist only in the present, summoning an unfathomable catastrophe with the voices and memories of survivors."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
60/100
"The film is undeniably tough going, but by looking into the hearts of the people that experienced the atrocities, it gets at the heart of the horror itself."
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
B
"Lazmann's 9 ½ hour labor of love equals
The Triumph Of The Will
for its [historical] importance"
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
10/10
"The chief success of the film...is to remove the Holocaust from its comfortably horrifying place in history, and restore a human face to the atrocities."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
(1 - 5) of 5
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
Page
1
Reviews database provided by
Rotten Tomatoes
and the
Movie Review Query Engine
All articles and reviews on this website © the respective authors.
All other content © The Online Film Critics Society (0.20)