Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

Village Voice by

The only rationale for the production seems to be that the pair were gay, and therein lies the main problem with this uninspired example of queer-film-festival filler.

Variety by Eddie Cockrell

A sibling survivor story of uncommon personal and political breadth.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Looks great but tells us little about the subjects.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

The resulting collaboration is a strange beast;

New Times (L.A.) by Luke Y. Thompson

It's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over, but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

The re- enactments, however fascinating they may be as history, are too crude to serve the work especially well.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures? Wouldn't one about their famous dad, author of "Death in Venice," etc., be more valuable?