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Genre : Drama Release Date : February 10, 2012 MPAA Rating : R Duration : 145 minute(s) Production Budget : -Studio : Sony Pictures Classics Official Site : http://www.sonyclassics.com/indarkness/ Reviews Rate :
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without providing a solution to the conundrum, the film leaves an appreciation for that phenomenon of human behavior
Review rate : B
by Jules Brenner [Filmcritic.com ]
too many Holocaust dramas rely on built-in sympathies and long-settled historical assumptions
Review rate : B
by Mark Keizer [Boxoffice Magazine ]
this film is a bit of a hybrid as the action does not remain continuously on Socha, although he has the dramatic character arc
Review rate : B
by Laura Clifford [Reeling Reviews ]
the script has its share of hackish melodrama, but the pacing is classical, the compositions mysterious and painterly, the palette of deep blacks reminiscent of Rembrandt
by David Edelstein [New York Magazine ]
shows us how extraordinarily fraught that choice was
Review rate : B
by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]
real life brims with startling atrocities as well as cliches, and this film is full of both
by Richard Corliss [TIME Magazine ]
it's the rare film that should not introduce new story elements or characters past its first act
by Jaime N. Christley [Slant Magazine ]
it's a transformation as wrenching to watch as it is vital to remember
Review rate : B
by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]
it is suspenseful, horrifying and at times intensely moving
by A.O. Scott [New York Times ]
it is not easy to watch, but it is impossible to turn away
by Wendy Weinstein [Film Journal International ]
it feels more like a requirement of the genre than a reflection of deteroriating inner lives
by Michelle Orange [Movieline ]
here, courage and heroism are defined as much by ruthless cunning, dumb luck and the ability to screen out others' pain as by any heroic derring-do
by Ella Taylor [NPR ]
harrowing and rewarding epic to run long so it would make viewers feel that they're in the sewers as well
by V.A. Musetto [New York Post ]
give the familiar elements a fresh intensity, while the cramped, lightless, sewage-filled surroundings fill the film with choking claustrophobia
Review rate : B+
by Tasha Robinson [AV Club ]
begins in the filmmaker's best off-kilter mode
by Michael Atkinson [Village Voice ]
arduous drama is more ironic and multi-faceted than most such tales
by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]
a daringly murky-looking movie that demands viewers enter the void too and meet Socha and his Jews as real
Review rate : A-
by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
by V.A. Musetto [New York Post ]
