Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

Add one more extraordinary survival tale to the canon of Holocaust documentaries: No Place on Earth.

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

The film is built from moving, frank interviews with survivors from two families who hid, speaking over and around extensive re-enactments. Passages from the memoir of one family matriarch, Esther Stermer, in many ways the heroine of the tale, also are used as narration.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore

A well-crafted documentary variation on "Defiance," Ukrainian Jews saving themselves by going underground -- literally.

Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan

Perhaps the most amazing thing about this story is that it would have been lost to history had not American spelunker Chris Nicola happened across mundane relics -- buttons, shoes and the like -- while exploring the cave complex in the 1990s.

The A.V. Club by Sam Adams

This story isn’t untold, just largely unknown. It’s a minor point, perhaps, but a sticky one, a needless elision that blurs the all-important question of how memories, and history, must be recounted to endure. One telling is not enough.

NPR by Mark Jenkins

Although the story is told with narration rather than dialogue, Tobias relies too much on reconstruction. A more inventive melding of documentary and docudrama would have benefited the film, whose most moving scenes all involve real members of the families. A bit more historical and geographic context would also be useful.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

The first-person remembrances hit you where you live, while everything else (including a bland musical score by John Piscitello) often creates the opposite of the intended effect: It keeps you at arm's length from an extraordinary story.

The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

The bare facts of the feat seize the imagination, even if Ms. Tobias’s competent documentary doesn’t quite rise to the challenge.

Arizona Republic by Kerry Lengel

The film is not without its flaws, but the story it tells is both terrifying and inspiring.

Slant Magazine

A remarkable story made almost unremarkable in the hands of lazy filmmaking.

Slant Magazine by Tina Hassannia

A remarkable story made almost unremarkable in the hands of lazy filmmaking.

Village Voice

The stats relayed at the movie's end...almost have more impact than the narrative.

Time Out by David Fear

This story is both uplifting and awe-inspiring. It deserves to be told better.