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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Feb 2014

There is no need for Murmelstein to break down here. In The Last of the Unjust, it’s as if the whole world is weeping…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Feb 2014

It is the great achievement of The Last of the Unjust that it presents the awfulness of this history in all its ambiguousness and complexity…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 13 Feb 2014

The new film may not qualify for masterpiece status, but it's an enthralling portrait of a man — an exceptionally brilliant and articulate…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 10 Feb 2014

Murmelstein deserves his own movie and now, more than 20 years after his death, he gets it…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Feb 2014

Murmelstein died in Rome in 1989, and having witnessed the terrible dilemmas he suffered and the mass rescues he pulled off, we can only be…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 07 Feb 2014

My hunch is that most viewers, whatever their previous views on this fraught subject, will come away not only fascinated but largely convinced…

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By Deborah Young (235) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 07 Feb 2014

A powerful reflection on the beginning of Hitler's Final Solution is seen through the intelligent, sardonic eyes of an aged eyewitness…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 07 Feb 2014

It is a fascinating story, and although one told before - the 2003 documentary Prisoner of Paradise also touched on this model ghetto - Murmelstein…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 06 Feb 2014

“Shoah” remains a heroic reckoning with the limits of collective understanding, but The Last of the Unjust is something smaller, stranger…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Feb 2014

The Last of the Unjust, like Lanzmann himself at his advanced age, is ungainly but powerful…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 06 Feb 2014

Lanzmann, for his part, begins the interview with a sharp, probing manner; by the end, the filmmaker’s questions and body language are conveying…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 06 Feb 2014

Though it’s more testimonial exhibit than movie, “Unjust” remains a crucial document…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Feb 2014

The Last Of The Unjust is demanding but fascinating, both as history and as an intellectual volley on the lure of power, the ambiguities of…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 05 Feb 2014

It’s a valuable historical document, to be sure; as a movie, however, it’s a dry, grueling experience, lacking Shoah’s monumental grandeur…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 05 Feb 2014

A rich, provocative and sometimes startling journey into Holocaust history and the mysteries of human nature…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 04 Feb 2014

Lanzmann’s feisty exchanges with Murmelstein, a brilliant talker, become an emotional symbol for the pursuit of slippery truth, while the…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 03 Feb 2014

The Murmelstein interview didn’t make it into Shoah, and Lanzmann sat on it, saying in a written prologue that he finally decided he had…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Feb 2014

In short, The Last of the Unjust is every bit as quarrelsome as it should be…

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By Ela Bittencourt (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Feb 2014

Claude Lanzmann's film doesn't so much strive to elucidate the Shoah as to draw us into its infinite moral complexities…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Dec 2013

There are no simple denials, nor anything simple at all in Last of the Unjust. Only stories, recovered and retold, of a reality beyond their reach…

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