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

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

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Nov 6, 2009

The lesson here is not simply to vilify the Japanese soldiers of that era, but to make sure that we never forget who we are and what our country stands for today.

| Apr 13, 2008

Sheds light on particular wartime atrocities largely neglected in the collective memory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2008

Nanking doesn't tell us why decency and compassion completely break down from time to time. It just tells us something terribly modern and all too familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2008

Anyone who sees Nanking should know going in what a brutal story it is, but no one should miss it because of a restrictive rating.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 17, 2008

Nanking does justice to this tragedy even though it makes the mistake of mixing the testimony of actual participants with staged readings from actors subbing for real people.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 11, 2008

The filmmakers employ a powerful technique of interspersing newsreel footage with wrenching on-camera interviews of survivors and sequences of actors reciting from the letters and memoirs of the Westerners on the scene.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 11, 2008

I have rarely, if ever, seen a documentary reconstruction of a historical event that is so rich in firsthand (and well-preserved) photographic material.

| Jan 10, 2008

A somberly effective look at one of the most shameful events in human history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2007

Nanking submits yet another reminder, if any more were needed, of how wickedness in the 20th century achieved dimensions previously considered unimaginable -- or unbearable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2007

Nanking both calls attention to a horrifying set of war crimes that remains little known in the West and crafts an impossible-but-true hymn to the power of the individual conscience.

Full Review | Dec 13, 2007

Nanking is a swift, incisive documentary about one of the lesser-known horrors of the 20th century.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 12, 2007

[A] powerful documentary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 12, 2007

Indispensable, beautifully crafted account of a little-known Japanese massacre.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2007

The personalities it brings to light -- many of whom were forced to remain silent about what they'd seen after returning to their homelands -- are worthy of widespread exposure.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2007