The Child I Never Was
Strand Releasing | Release Date: October 8, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
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Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
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Mixed:
4
Negative:
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90
Film ThreatJames Wegg
How can such difficult subjects as under-age sexual activity, brutal beatings and murders be presented in a way that doesn't alienate the audience, yet still capture the horror and circumstances in a believable manner? The solution? Assign Kai Pieck to the task. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNed Martel
The film is airless and mirthless, but it's hardly worthless; in fact in many ways it's more purposeful than the snuff-film scenes of an average "CSI" episode. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
By the film's end we feel neither sympathy nor, oddly, total disgust for this most loathsome of killers. We simply begin to understand, and perhaps that's achievement enough. Read full review
50
VarietyDavid Stratton
Though Pieck is to be admired for the rigorousness in telling this chilling story (on what looks like a near zero budget), the film itself remains resolutely unlikable. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAkiva Gottlieb
Kai S. Pieck's debut feature finds a plaintive, compelling route to the pathology of 1960s German child-killer Jürgen Bartsch. Read full review
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