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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfA superior work of confrontational boldness, it might be the movie Oppenheimer wanted to make in the first place.
- 100The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangThe film does not stab as deeply in laying bare the schizoid moral hypocrisy of the perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide as its peerless predecessor, but instead offers an extraordinarily poignant, desperately upsetting meditation on the legacy of those killings, and on the bravery required to seek any kind of truth about them.
- 100CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleOppenheimer's first film maintained a passive detachment, allowing the killers to re-enact their own atrocities and metaphorically hang themselves with their own words. The Look of Silence takes a far harder line, probing the killers more deeply and confronting them in an attempt to shake some sense of remorse out of them.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe Look of Silence — like The Act of Killing — is arresting and important film-making.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Look of Silence is perhaps even more riveting for focusing on one man’s personal search for answers as he bravely confronts his brother’s killers.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThis is an essential companion piece to Oppenheimer’s earlier film; another astonishing heart-of-darkness voyage into the jungle of human nature.
- 52TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThe Look of Silence feels more like an extended DVD extra to his genre-defying previous film than a stand-alone documentary.
- 50Slant MagazineJames LattimerSlant MagazineJames LattimerIf The Look of Silence still remains a gripping, vital, consequential documentary, it's in spite of its approach rather than because of it.