Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Even blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film.

L.A. Weekly by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Both visually and emotionally, a panoramic picture; Mehta wields a master's hand as she weaves together vistas of urban and pastoral India with thoughts on the nature of man as it keeps cycling out in the specifics of history.

New York Post by Jonathan Foreman

A remarkable accomplishment. It takes one of the century's vast tragedies...and makes it heart-rendingly real and intimate.

Chicago Tribune

An extraordinary movie on many levels.

Chicago Tribune

An extraordinary movie on many levels.

Film.com by Gemma Files

Mehta's latest release, combines a similarly intoxicating visual immediacy and delight with a sobering outsider's long view.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

A powerful and disturbing reminder of how a civilization can suddenly crack under certain pressures.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

It's a passionate, beautifully mounted film -- but the agenda she sets for herself is too large and the conflicts she portrays too complicated to be illustrated in a single drama.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

Hurls its Holocaust at us in a series of justifiably horrific images.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Told as a melodrama and romance, not docudrama, and that makes it all the more effective.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Telling things through the eyes of a spoiled, precocious, troublemaking 8-year-old narrator is both an overdone device and not a particularly engaging one.

Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Mehta feels compelled to twist the screw, shamelessly plying her audience with mawkish tropes wearing the garb of "innocence."