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Festivals

The End – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Joshua Oppen­heimer returns with an ambi­tious, post-apoc­a­lyp­tic musi­cal whose the­mat­ic flights of fan­cy are always just a lit­tle too strident.

2
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Look of Silence

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Joshua Oppenheimer’s blood­cur­dling and bril­liant fol­low-up to his doc smash, The Act of Killing.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

The Act of Killing

by David Jenkins

Joshua Oppen­heimer mix­es the romance of the movies with the hor­ror of geno­cide in this incred­i­ble one-off.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect