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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: As timeless as the human condition. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Burnett's documentarian empathy, coupled with his easygoing skill as a dramatic essayist, result in a film that doesn't look, feel or breathe like any American work of its generation. Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: The dialogue, which is read with either insufficient or excessive emphasis by the nonactors, is often buried under a soundtrack of vintage blues, making it doubly hard to follow. Even the slaughter of the sheep is numbingly uneventful. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Killer of Sheep can be seen (and reseen) as a great -- the greatest -- cinematic tone poem of American urban life. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: ... a seminal American feature ... Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Charles Burnett's timeless and poetic Killer of Sheep is one of those 'found' films that never should have been lost in the first place. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A milestone of eloquent understatement that captures the daily life of have-nots as few American movies have. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: ... still has the power to move us. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: It shouldn't be missed. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Killer of Sheep was declared a national treasure in 1990 by the Library of Congress. I agree. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: So sad. So lovely. So profound. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Here's to the miracle of a buried classic granted the opposite of a killing -- here's to life. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: The strength of this little movie is its artlessness, the non-plotted story acted by non-actors, the raw unpretentiousness of real life in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It may fill you with despair or offer up relief, but you will not be unmoved. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Independence is a subject Mr. Burnett knows well. After all, he was indie well before the term entered the film vocabulary. And it all started with the sheep killer with sad, distant eyes. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: It's impossible not to partake in Burnett's delight in the domestic, or in his celebration of an art that finds God in the details. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: In this blueprint are all sorts of interesting and unusual things. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Everything about Burnett's film has multiple meanings, even its title. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A worthy, fascinating film that shows the influence of Bresson and of the Italian neorealists. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Seeing Killer of Sheep is an experience as simple and indelible as watching Bresson's Pickpocket or De Sica's Bicycle Thieves for the first time. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A gritty, grainy slice of everyday lumpen American black struggle. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: As fresh and observational as it was 30 years ago, Killer of Sheep seems even more universal now. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Killer of Sheep is unlike any other American film of its time or any other. Read more