Babi Yar. Context
| Release Date: April 1, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 31, 2022
Loznitsa has assembled a wrenching and revelatory collage. Read full review
90
Screen DailyDemetrios MatheouMar 28, 2022
Loznitsa creates a fascinating and quietly devastating chronicle of invasion, occupation and slaughter. As ever, the Ukrainian director doesn’t labour his film with voiceover or overt authorial steers. Yet this is close to home, and it’s impossible not to feel that he’s holding his country to account; for while this was a Nazi extermination, it came with a degree of collusion. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineClayton DillardMar 28, 2022
Sergei Loznitsa continues to mine the archives for what amount to living documents of a past that, as is all too clear, reverberate into the present with devastating force. Read full review
70
VarietyJay WeissbergMar 28, 2022
Babi Yar. Context has power but falls short of the director’s greatest works, largely because his span here is considerably longer, and in consequence the focus suffers. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsApr 1, 2022
The dual nature of “Babi Yar. Context” as both an essay movie and a cut-up historic document might create an uneasy tension with viewers who would like to know more about whatever they’re looking at. If nothing else, Loznitsa succeeds at being upsetting. Read full review
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