A-

Offers one of the most powerful and unforgettable looks at evil.

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09/12/05

4/5

...a powerful film indeed.

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05/23/05

B

“S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” makes an articulate and cogent argument that should be seen and heard.

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10/07/04

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.

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08/11/04

N/A

A potent reminder that history is glutted with proof that trials, convictions and imprisonment for those accused of crimes against humanity offer no deterrent.

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08/08/04

3/4

It's quietly effective and serves as stark reminder of the horrors that can result from blind obedience.

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08/06/04

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.

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07/16/04

A

A haunting look at the historical amnesia that envelops countries or regimes after officially sanctioned barbarism.

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07/15/04

3/4

A necessary and haunting examination of how corrupt systems can create corrupt individuals to serve them.

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07/08/04

3/4

It is not a film—which unflinchingly captures a still festering wound on humanity—you are likely to forget.

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06/18/04

N/A

A modest but nonetheless devastating documentary.

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06/11/04

N/A

Cinema at its most intellectually honest and morally necessary.

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06/11/04

3/4

Devastating.

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06/05/04

3.5/4

oddly liquid

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06/03/04

B

Moves very slowly and tends to be repetitive, but it has a simmering intensity beneath its deceptively placid surface...quietly devastating.

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05/21/04