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RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire
This expertly made, highly dramatic film achieves must-see status for the inevitable light it sheds on the persistence of toxic racial hatreds not just in Hungary but worldwide.
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Passionate in his anti-Semitic beliefs, Csanád Szegedi was the rising star of Hungary’s far-right party until he discovered his family’s secret—his maternal grandparents were Jewish. The revelation prompts an improbable but seemingly heartfelt conversion from anti-Semite to Orthodox Jew.
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The Film Stage by John Fink
Keep Quiet is as fascinating as it is powerful.
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Variety by Dennis Harvey
With far-right nationalist ideologies suddenly a matter of pressing interest to almost everyone, the timing is regrettably ideal for Keep Quiet. This fascinating documentary by co-directors Joseph Martin and Sam Blair finds a stranger-than-fiction hook for probing that disturbing global trend.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The film raises more troubling questions than it answers, but it's fascinating throughout nonetheless.
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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
The filmmakers astutely reveal how a culture can eat another alive and somehow live with itself.
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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Because the footage of Szegedi was filmed over a number of years, the documentary reveals different stages of its subject's thinking.
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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Even if you are unmoved by Mr. Szegedi’s personal story (I found him somewhat sympathetic), what Keep Quiet tells us about its larger themes is upsettingly pertinent.
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IndieWire by David Ehrlich
Keep Quiet is far more compelling as a portrait of a man in transition than it is as a man reborn, but Blair and Martin never solve the problem that they only have access to the latter.
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