Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Dumont's cinematic style is aggressively physical and philosophical at the same time. It irritates as many viewers as it inspires, but it prompts more thought than ordinary movies ever do.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

A beautiful and compassionate work, at once stark, sensory and spiritually grasping, that challenges us to forgive even the most monstrous sins.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

You probably won't feel comfortable when Humanité is over, but as you leave the theater you will feel more alive than when you entered.

Film.com by Henry Cabot Beck

Audiences willing to wade knee deep in the muck and mire of the human abyss are advised to seek out Humanité at the local arthouse.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

A film of stunning impact.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Dumont's film is unfinished in the sense that some paintings are.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.

San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris

Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Not an easy film and is for those few moviegoers who approach a serious movie almost in the attitude of prayer.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

A harsh, spellbinding tale.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

Humanite isn't like any other film: It's uncompromising, eerily affecting and wildly unresolved.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

It ought to be seen, because it's a work of moral and spiritual mystery.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Desmond Ryan

While Dumont's movie has its striking scenes, it is doomed to a sense of lethargy and inertia by the kind of people it ponders and the context in which they are placed.

New York Daily News

Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité.

Time by Richard Corliss

Don't ask us why this minimalist drama won prizes last year at Cannes or why it is getting raves in its U.S. release.