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By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Jan 2008

Anyone who sees Nanking should know going in what a brutal story it is, but no one should miss it because of a restrictive rating…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 17 Jan 2008

Even as history changes to accommodate current needs and frameworks, it's crucial to remember those who lived it…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 11 Jan 2008

Nanking, directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, does justice to this tragedy even though it makes the mistake of mixing the testimony…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Jan 2008

The filmmakers employ a powerful technique of interspersing newsreel footage with wrenching on-camera interviews of survivors and sequences…

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By Janos Gereben (77) for Entertainment Insiders (294) on 03 Jan 2008

The story of Nanking is told simply and well, it speaks for itself…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 31 Dec 2007

It is a harsh story and the filmmakers do not try to sugarcoat or diminish its power and tragedy…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 14 Dec 2007

It is the devastating testimony from survivors themselves that leaves the most indelible impression…

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By Gene Seymour (406) for Newsday (2,345) on 13 Dec 2007

Nanking submits yet another reminder, if any more were needed, of how wickedness in the 20th century achieved dimensions previously considered…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 13 Dec 2007

Nanking both calls attention to a horrifying set of war crimes that remains little known in the West and crafts an impossible-but-true hymn…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 12 Dec 2007

What makes the film bearable is the knowledge that a few people did what they could to hold the line against humanity’s worst instincts…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 12 Dec 2007

Some of the stories and images here are simply, shakingly unforgettable…

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By John A. Nesbit (472) for Old School Reviews (429) on 10 Dec 2007

The story of man's inhumanity during wartime is an old one, but this film delivers the message raw unlike anything before…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 Dec 2007

Documentarians Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman brilliantly combine archive footage from Japan's 1937 massive attack on China's former capital…

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By Donald J. Levit (489) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 08 Dec 2007

A tribute to a handful of racial and cultural foreigners and to the Chinese people, 'Nanking' is inspiring... but it can depress in the extreme…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 03 Dec 2007

There won't be a more powerful, horrific or inspiring film this year than Nanking…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 08 Mar 2007

A handsome documentary on a brutal subject…

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By Jeremy Mathews (77) for Film Threat (5,156) on 03 Feb 2007

While at times the film begins to feel like a laundry list of bad deeds, the first-person accounts pack a wallop…

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By Kim Voynar (107) for Cinematical (752) on 03 Feb 2007

War and violence are never pretty, and this is not an easy film to watch -- there is brutal and gruesome footage of the death and destruction…

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By James Greenberg (88) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 30 Jan 2007

Not only is the film a powerful historical record and a warning for future generations, it is an essential reminder to people, including many…

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