While not visually elaborated, it is certain and precise in looking at the faces of these people who ended up in the SS [Schutzstaffel]... [Full review in Spanish] [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 9, 2023

Holland condenses twelve years of work and nearly 300 interviews into a 90 minute study of how passivity can open the door to great evil and how denial of one’s complicity can take many different forms.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Final Account is a masterpiece that puts Luke Holland in the same league as the great documentarian of the Holocaust's aftermath, Marcel Ophüls. It's unmissable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 27, 2022

As with Claude Lanzmann's seminal Shoah (1985), Final Account cracks open the heart of darkness using little more than a camera and a microphone.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2021

Holland's film is an invaluable testament.

| Dec 9, 2021

Shot and edited with a hushed stoicism, the documentary strikes an appropriately sobering tone as people describe horrors they witnessed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2021

Final Account draws a line under a period of history that has been explored extensively before. But it also hints, in several chilling segments, at how pervasive some of the ideas that formed the core of Nazi ideology remain, even now.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2021

A valuable addition to the historical record.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2021

While this passion project is an important and valuable document, it is more of an essay on the subject than a masterclass in the art of documentary making.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2021

Perhaps the most shocking aspect of his film is the nonchalance with which some of his subjects recount those events.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2021

It's fascinating, almost blackly humorous, to notice how strategically fuzzy the subjects' memories grow...

| Oct 1, 2021

The final look at Nazi Germany from the people who were there as youths. It reveals how difficult - and how terrifyingly easy - fascism is to live with.

| Sep 14, 2021

Holland reminds us of this reality by interviewing his subjects in their homes, where signs of a full, uninterrupted life tell us that they simply never had to face their culpability in any real way.

| Jun 8, 2021

As a document made to endure the revisionism and relativism that appears when one least expects it, [the film] offers living proof that the need for accountability is never final.

| Jun 6, 2021

Accurate knowledge about the Holocaust is disturbingly low among Millennials and Gen Z Americans ... I hope this film is shown in high schools across America.

| Jun 4, 2021

Director Luke Holland has captured a rarely seen side to the Holocaust and the everyday people who helped it happen; with some the guilt and shame of what they did are things they don't want to take to the grave. With others, there is neither.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 4, 2021

A superb documentary... It is an amazing collection of voices who sometimes contradict each other.

| Jun 3, 2021

Everything in Final Account is a tacit revelation, and the way that the Third Reich purposely institutionalized racism and hatred of the Jewish population is repulsively relevant.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 2, 2021

Final Account is essential viewing and a timely cautionary tale.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 2, 2021

I am fascinated by movies and books that push aside our view of history, one informed by hindsight, and take us to what it was like at the time it was happening.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2021