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By Michael Leader (59) for Film4 (1,522) on 30 Jun 2013

This is an unflinching, captivating documentary that does much more than simply record or readdress history - it uses cinema as both judge…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 29 Jun 2013

Unspeakable horror and utterly mundane madness are thrown together in the existential equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider - fact and fiction…

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By Tom Dawson (244) for The List (2,018) on 29 Jun 2013

Opppenheimer's high-risk strategy of avoiding historical analysis and giving the film over to bragging mass murderers pays huge dividends…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 27 Jun 2013

The director has hit upon a form that renders these atrocities... as unsparing X-rays of the murderers' vast delusions…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 27 Jun 2013

This ideological push and pull at the film's core supplies it with a sense of high drama…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 26 Jun 2013

An astonishing documentary that's essential viewing for anyone wishing to understand the darker aspects of the human condition…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 26 Jun 2013

It is a gut-churning film: and a radical dive into history, grabbing the past in a way a conventional documentary would not…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 26 Jun 2013

First, the film beggars belief. Then it sends belief running into the hills, screaming for help and understanding…

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By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 25 Jun 2013

Hopefully there will be as much of a lasting effect on the killers as this picture has on the viewer, in a feature that isn't likely to escape…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 24 Jun 2013

A sizzling doc that focuses on the repulsive bragging of two unpunished mass murderers treated by their government as heroes…

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By Mark Stafford (28) for Electric Sheep (203) on 24 Jun 2013

You may need a stiff drink and a lie down afterwards…

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By Cameron Williams (256) for The Popcorn Junkie (236) on 27 May 2013

The importance of this doco cannot be overstated in exposing a corrupt regime, highlighting the dangers of propaganda and holding a warped…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 09 May 2013

The brutal honesty that fills The Act Of Killing is a true testament to Joshua Oppenheimer's crafty documentarian skills which emotionally…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 20 Mar 2013

A startling wake-up call to the pornography of violence and its major role in crimes against humanity…

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By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Mar 2013

In Joshua Oppenheimer's extraordinary The Act of Killing, film becomes the medium for a bold historical reckoning--and in more ways than one…

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By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for House Next Door (153) on 12 Mar 2013

The Act of Killing is about the horrific past that warped and still rules Indonesia's present, but it's also about the stories we all construct…

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