Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

The viciously anti-Semitic 1940 German movie “Jew Süss” is one of the most notorious films ever made...Today it is one of the few Nazi-era films that still cannot legally be shown.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Deeply fascinating, unexpectedly potent documentary.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Still a mystery: Harlan’s own sense of guilt. But there’s plenty to go around.

Boston Globe by Joan Anderman

For a few years, Veit Harlan must have felt he was the right filmmaker at the right place at the right time. Did he ever stop to think that his luck also meant the doom of millions? Moeller’s documentary can’t supply an answer. It does, however, make the rest of us wonder.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Another Harlan work, "Kolberg" (1945), inspired the film within the film in "Inglourious Basterds."

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Only ends up skimming the surface. But even the skimming is largely interesting and thought-provoking, and of course very bleak.

Village Voice

Stuffed with talking heads, Harlan is overlong and redundant, but its core questions are worthy.

Village Voice by Karina Longworth

Stuffed with talking heads, Harlan is overlong and redundant, but its core questions are worthy.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Rather than delving deep into its subject, the film loses focus by concentrating on the feelings of Harlan's descendants rather than a deep analysis of the man himself.