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

| Jan 4, 2018

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

| Sep 16, 2015

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

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

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

| Apr 9, 2008

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

| Apr 9, 2008

The film's overall thrust -- angry, intelligent, compassionate -- makes this producer Puttnam's finest movie to date.

| Feb 9, 2006

A mighty accomplishment, and possibly the bravest Britflick yet made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2006

The best moments are the human ones, the conversations, the exchanges of trust, the waiting around, the sudden fear, the quick bursts of violence, the desperation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2003

The movie is diffuse and wandering. It's someone telling a long, interesting story who can't get to the point.

| May 20, 2003

The director, Roland Joffe, and his photographer, Chris Menges, capture all of this with a realism that hasn't been so poetically convincing in a nondocumentary context since Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000