88
Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumHersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify.
- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt becomes a meditation on the dual nature of film, on a "reality" at once true and false, essential and tainted.
- 90VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyIt stands as a unique film-within-a-film, of significance for the historical value of the raw images, the memories they spur and internal evidence of how the Nazis staged scenes long assumed to be real.
- 90Village VoiceElla TaylorVillage VoiceElla TaylorThe artificial look of the added footage, counterpointed by the commentary of inmates and survivors, only underscores the unending shock of the film's unadulterated images, even though we have seen them in other Shoah documentaries.
- 90The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisRemarkable as much for its speculative restraint as for its philosophical reach.
- 90SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirThe first Holocaust movie that's actually about another Holocaust movie, and in some peculiar way it brings us closer to the terror and tragedy of the original event.
- 88New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickExtremely unsettling and thought- provoking.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeHersonski enriches this evidence by bringing in survivors of the ghetto, who tell stories of life there while watching the film themselves.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIt will test your faith in humanity, but Hersonski's film is nonetheless a brilliant reminder of the importance of bearing witness.
- 75The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayA Film Unfinished is affecting as a rare document of a terrible place and time, and those who lived there.