Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 12, 2012
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4

Critic Reviews

  1. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    Jan 12, 2012
    80
    The hallmark of all three films has been their understanding and embrace of subjects' self-presentations./
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Jan 12, 2012
    80
    Paradise Lost 3 is perhaps the most interesting and well-made film of the trilogy
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Jan 17, 2012
    70
    Paradise Lost 3 never loses sight of the sickening black humor of it all--how Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley became, in effect, mere extras in a shadowplay about the omnipotence of the state. In the shadow of such sickness, all the personal dramas can't help but pale, but there are still surprising and powerful moments.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Jan 12, 2012
    60
    The new film, despite the astounding story it tells, is the most conventional, least urgent and, cinematically, the least interesting of the three.