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Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: Shoah is the greatest use of film in motion picture history, taking movies to their highest moral value. For what director/interviewer Lanzmann has done on film is nothing less than revive history, a history so ugly that many would prefer to forget. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: With his 9 1/2-hour Shoah, Claude Lanzmann has accomplished the seemingly impossible: He has brought such beauty to his recounting of the horror of the Holocaust that he has made it accessible and comprehensible. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: By straightforwardly presenting interviews with people who lived through the Holocaust, Lanzmann makes it real again. Even more impressively, he helps us to see how the horror could have happened. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Lanzmann slowly, cumulatively colors in a vast canvas on mass murder. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Why revisit "Shoah'' 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: More than a treatment of a great subject, the film itself is a great achievement in form. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: At a time when the few remaining witnesses to the Holocaust are passing away, Shoah more than ever stands as a necessary experience. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: [It] has transcended the cinema to become a primary record of the extermination of European Jews during the Second World War. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There is no proper response to this film. It is an enormous fact, a 550-minute howl of pain and anger in the face of genocide. It is one of the noblest films ever made. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The film's achievement is to show there are stories worth hearing, and ravaged, resilient faces that reward our scrutiny. The horror, the gallows humor, the shame and the heroism, the lessons of this holocaust -- and all others--have not been exhausted. Read more