Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A shocking and significant film, a further illumination of one of recent history's great horrors, a documentary that will make a difference in the world. It is also an exceptionally difficult film to actually watch.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The Look of Silence in some ways manages to burrow deeper into your soul.and your nightmares.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
The Look Of Silence is a powerful gesture of political rebellion, one whose boldest action isn't damning mass murderers to their faces, but being willing to believe that their stranglehold on country and history could be broken.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
The Look of Silence . uses members of a single family to represent the millions of victims and survivors.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
A superior work of confrontational boldness, it might be the movie Oppenheimer wanted to make in the first place.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
A . profoundly shattering movie.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
As the title indicates, this follow-up is dealing with a somewhat blunter set of symbols than its predecessor. It's just as wrenching, though .

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
My relief in watching this movie, which once again recounts the slaughters in great, almost fetishistic detail, is that at least the victims are allowed a voice this time.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
In a way, I wish I'd never seen "The Look of Silence," because now I won't be able to forget it. But that's the point .

Name : Erik McClanahan / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
While not as mind-blowing or surprising as "Killing," "The Look of Silence" is perhaps the more necessary film.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Village Voice
Oppenheimer throws into sharp relief the contrast between Adi and the murderers' perspectives, and thus the terrifying tension that engulfs the country as a whole.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
There's a rage far beneath Adi's placid expression and the director's dispassionate style. It's not a rage for vengeance but anger at an all-consuming blindness.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Feels more like an extended DVD extra to Oppenheimer's genre-defying previous film than a stand-alone documentary.

Name : Walter V. Addiego / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
It's a testimony to how much this is a live issue in Indonesia that some of the credits are listed simply as "anonymous."

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
Mr. Rukun is a quiet man, contemplating his family's tragedy more in sorrow than in anger. But this atmosphere has the effect of making the violence at the film's heart all the more shocking.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The film is all the more potent for its restraint, as constant on the mind as the cicadas that sound throughout the unyielding night.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
The stories the perpetrators tell are hideous, but Adi proves to be a calm and unrelenting interrogator, even in the face of direct death threats.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
"The Look of Silence" is a simpler work than "The Act of Killing," and a better one.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
If it's a far less flashy film than The Act of Killing, it's also a better and possibly more honest one.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
What a combination of misery and uplift this movie is.

Name : Dana Stevens / Alias : Slate
[It] isn't quite documentary filmmaking, but it certainly (and sickeningly) isn't fiction either.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Writer-director Rodrigo Sepulveda suggests a personal explanation for her quest late in the game, but too late and too half-heartedly to rescue this morose Chilean drama from its own sanctimony.

Name : Simon Abrams / Alias : Village Voice
The Face of an Angel may not be like any other whodunit you've seen, but it's also only superficially smarter than the genre it defines itself against.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
A picture that trades any suspense for endless scenes of a bored Bruhl staring at a screen, trying to find a story. Any story.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Past Winterbottom films have turned "real life" into both comedy and tragedy. The Face Of An Angel turns it into a directionless skulk.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
[A] silly metamovie based on the Amanda Knox murder case.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
There's a great deal of intelligent material here. Winterbottom mounts a harsh attack on our fascination with killers and our tendency to forget the victim. Yet it's overlaid with so much navel-gazing, it's hard to take.

Name : Deborah Young / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
There are many good things in the swiftly-moving narrative, filmed with a hand-held camera to give a documentary look.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Rambling, frustrating and wholly uninvolving, "The Face of an Angel" swarms with ideas that have no place to land.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Like the floundering filmmaker at its center, "The Face of an Angel" never seems sure of what story it wants to tell.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The film does occasionally show a pulse when it tries to re-imagine the life of the victim - when it turns the tables on the mystery and tries to become a film about love and life, instead of doom and death. But it's too little, too late, and too lame.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
The Face of an Angel ties itself up in some strange knots, but Michael Winterbottom conjures up a haunting gothic atmosphere in Siena.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
Winterbottom is not out to thrill, but to lecture on the truth, which, he believes, can only be found in fiction.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
A lovely-looking yet muddled meditation on truth.