| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

[Director] Wajda has brought some small measure of rest to their names, to Poland, and to history.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 23, 2009

Katyn is remarkably concise and (if one may say this about a cinematic commemoration of mass murder) elegant.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 17, 2009

Wajda's intensity and passion, as well as his intelligence and craft, are unmistakable from the very first sequence. Virtually from the first shot.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 19, 2009

This may not rank among his greatest masterpieces, but it's exciting to see that Wajda still has a devastating, defiant work in him.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2009

The principal success of Wajda's stately, widescreen and exquisitely shot film lies in its sober attempt to mirror the fragmented truth of a genocide.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2009

It is serious film-making of the most noble intent and it strenuously attacks the state ideologies that continue to legitimise war crimes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2009

This powerful, heartfelt and important drama from one of the great names in world cinema deserves to be seen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Wajda has achieved something truly memorable: the film reminds you that cinema can be the preserver of the truth's smallest details, when a run of excellent pictures can finally tell a story the world was waiting for.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Katyn is a solemn, troubling film that makes necessary demands on its audience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Wajda employs a full range of sweeping shots and orchestral cues to ramp up the emotion, although he's often guilty of sacrificing the intimacy of character for the grander narrative of history.

Full Review | Jun 19, 2009

Katyn is solidly, skilfully told. But away from these living-graveside scenes, Wajda's own artistic bones seem too well-upholstered at 83.

| Jun 19, 2009

Though it would be hard to call it life-affirming. It is too riven with grief and horror for that, too aware of what Poland has suffered for it to be anything but a deeply sombre memorial.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2009

There's the odd breathtakingly composed shot, chilling scenario and exquisitely poignant turn from the overpopulated cast but the sombrely indulgent pacing betrays the fact that acclaimed director Andrzej Wajda is now aged 83.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2009

If Polish, German and Russian sound roughly the same to you (and I can't tell them apart from Klingon) then you're in for two long and confusing hours, friendo.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Katyn is a sobering experience, at times harrowing. It's also extraordinarily compassionate, even as Wajda vents his rage about what happened and the lies that followed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2009

An intriguing mixture of the monumental and episodic...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2009

The great filmmaker's urge to show generations of his countrymen what they were told not to think about is what moves him, and while "Katyn" rises above didacticism, you can feel the director keeping his emotions in check throughout.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 28, 2009