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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Reviews

Unfortunate didactic turns undercut what could have been Morris' best film yet, but his subject's disarming candor and misplaced vanity don't fail to fascinate.

| May 27, 2022

Like all of Morris' films, "Mr. Death" provides us with no comfortable place to stand.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 4, 2019

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Ultimately, Leuchter comes across not as a fundamentally bad man, just a hopelessly deluded one, a technician overly impressed with his own expertise and infallibility, a small figure blindly sucked into the vortex of consummate evil...

| Jul 6, 2010

Morris, com sua habilidade narrativa habitual, conta a interessante mas incmoda histria de um homem destrudo pela prpria ignorncia.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2007

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2004

Fascinating stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2003

Despite its morbid subject, this documentary is far funnier than one would expect.

| Sep 24, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003

As Errol Morris shows us how this strange little man got into the execution business and Holocaust denial, we should ask ourselves: Did we create 'Mr. Death'? Is he us?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2003

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 5, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2003

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Unsettling documentary is a gripping study of the banality of evil.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 7, 2002

| Original Score: A | Sep 18, 2002

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