Meeting with Pol Pot
Strand Releasing | Release Date: June 13, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Film StageNirris NagendrarajahJun 11, 2025
In a time where authoritarianism is rampant, genocides are actively taking place, and journalists daily risk their lives giving voice to the victims of history, Meeting with Pol Pot is a noble, timely, incendiary counter-narrative that devises a way to look forward by making a project of the past, where the act of re-imagining the truth radically remembers the traces left behind by a lost generation. Read full review
100
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaMay 29, 2025
The result is a hauntingly timeless depiction of power and its mechanisms, filtered down to an intimate tale of journalistic integrity. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJun 24, 2025
Power shields its misdeeds with propaganda, but Panh sees such murderous lies clearly, giving them an honest staging, thick with echoes. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJun 13, 2025
Rithy’s aim goes beyond a history lesson, however. This film is about something more alive, more present tense. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterMay 29, 2025
The thriller-like intrigue in Meeting With Pol Pot is sustained by tension around whether the title event will ever actually happen and, ultimately, whether any of the trio will make it out alive. Read full review
80
The Film VerdictClarence TsuiMay 29, 2025
Unfolding with faint whiffs of film noir, Meeting with Pol Pot boasts powerful performances from its cast, with Irène Jacob (Double Life of Veronique) and Cyril Gueï playing journalists whose professional demeanour unravels rapidly as they contend with the consequences of the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJun 12, 2025
Panh powerfully interweaves real footage of starvation and mass death — sometimes projecting it behind the characters or matching it to Paul’s eyeline. He also brings back the main conceit of “The Missing Picture,” which used clay figurines to depict certain events. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChris BarsantiJun 8, 2025
Rithy Panh’s film is hard-hitting yet illusive, much like the story its characters are hunting. Read full review
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