By the end, when an anticipated convergence finally transpires, it’s quite the moment – an against-all-odds type of tear-jerking finale that helps to redeem many of the lulls from before.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 2, 2025

This is one of the quietest "war" movies ever made; yet, it's an indelible portrait of the excitement, horror, and confusion with which journalists experience war.

| Feb 27, 2020

Intense, violent movie about brutal Cambodian regime.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2018

... a visually arresting epic guaranteed to capture the hearts and minds of its audience.

| Jan 4, 2018

Few feature films have captured a nation's agony more dramatically than Roland Joff's The Killing Fields.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 16, 2015

[A] gripping, intelligent, provocative drama.

| Sep 16, 2015

If you see no more than one film a year, make this the one for 1984.

| Sep 16, 2015

Ngor's naturalistic and empathic portrayal of his character's desperate fight for survival is the key to this film's visceral power.

| Original Score: 82/100 | Jan 9, 2015

[UPDATED 2024 REVIEW] One of the great films of its decade.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 15, 2014

Every scene of The Killing Fields (and every participant in its making) is in service of showing how abruptly a seemingly safe and vital individual can have everything essential stripped away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2014

A gripping romanticized and somewhat fictionalized adaptation of an eyewitness magazine piece by New York Times journalist Sidney Schanberg.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 7, 2011

The movie is too conventional and fictionalized to qualify as a genuine political epic, but it's emotionally touching in describing the friendship between the NY Times reporter and his Cambodian translator.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 12, 2011

Se a primeira metade impressiona pelo virtuosismo tcnico, a segunda fascina pela coragem em observar sem sensacionalismo a magnfica fora de vontade de um sobrevivente, beneficiando-se ainda da maravilhosa performance semi-auto-biogrfica de Ngor.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2009

It must be nerve-racking for the producers to offer a tale so lacking in standard melodramatic satisfactions. But the result is worth it, for this is the clearest film statement yet on how the nature of heroism has changed in this totalitarian century.

| Aug 25, 2008

[Director Roland] Joffe came from 온라인카지노추천 and stage and he shoots the drama with an unforced realism, lent a terrible grace by the handsome images and smooth, unobtrusive long takes of cinematographer Chris Menges ...

| May 14, 2008

Without doubt one of the finest British films of the last 50 years.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2008

The screen is swamped by a bathetic, self-preening sententiousness.

| Apr 9, 2008

A deeply moving film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 9, 2008

The intent and outward trappings are all impressively in place, but at its heart there's something missing.

| Apr 9, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2008