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Noel Murray, AV Club: A film that does an injustice to the whole chaotic situation in Eastern Europe by making it seem not just impossible, but impenetrable. Read more
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: ... no crackerjack action flick but rather a dizzying, unfocused and, frankly, dull assemblage of revelations and denials. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A muckraking documentary of vast shuddery intrigue, makes a disquieting case that Russia hasn't just slipped back to its old oligarchic ways -- but that, in fact, it's a more repressive, corroded place than it was in the age of the Soviet Union. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Who needs paranoid thrillers when we have Russia's deathless gift for autocracy as plot material? Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Although a first-rate investigative documentary on its own, Andrei Nekrasov's Poisoned by Polonium also serves as a sequel to 2004's Disbelief. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The film, instead of confining itself to who Litvinenko was and how he came to be killed, wanders off into too many tangents and mentions too many cases. The epic corruption of today's Russia is far too widespread to fit into a single film. Read more