Loznitsa doesn't adorn the eerie footage with talking heads and factoid title cards. What narrative there is, along with a sense of incrementally mounting horror, emerges unbidden from the images.
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
The film makes you squirm as well as empathize, but it does need narration.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It all has a ghostly feel, like eerie murmurs during a séance: the static of history heard on a short-wave radio.
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The surreal images lack narration and talking heads, which is no problem. In fact, the device makes the shocking footage more compelling.