Certainly a very powerful documentary, One Child Nation is one that I strongly urge people to seek out.

| Oct 4, 2024

Describes the scope, excesses, abuses and effects of the "one child policy" with force and sensitivity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2021

A difficult to see 'must see' documentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

This study in cultural misogyny - which was not born of, but rather found validation in, the one-child policy - represents the best of Wang's instincts.

| Jul 30, 2020

One Child Nation is a stark, affecting piece that'll leave you boiling-over with fury and amazed at the power of persuasion.

| Jun 8, 2020

A sobering, heartbreaking view of how the Chinese Communist Party has attempted to deal with the country's exploding population.

| May 27, 2020

At a time when we're all fighting in the foothills of similar mountains... One Child Nation is a difficult, yet essential watch.

| Mar 17, 2020

This is a story of immense size, told on a personal scale. Also impressive is the access the filmmakers got to people in China, not the easiest place to get access to stories that are critical of the government.

| Original Score: B | Jan 26, 2020

It is a true horror story.

| Jan 24, 2020

[Wang] doesn't spoon-feed the wider parallels or telegraph the emotional arcs. That leaves its only big issue, then: how drab this thing looks.

| Jan 17, 2020

Wang spins the political out of the personal; preserving and presenting an atrocity with the hope that empathy might be the only way to move forward in this world.

| Jan 10, 2020

This is a riveting, deeply personal documentary on an epic, and appalling, theme.

| Jan 6, 2020

...[reminds] you of what it meant to live in a totalitarian society that regulated even the most intimate aspects of people's lives.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 27, 2019

One Child Nation fulfills the quintessential purpose of the documentary, to examine and inform thoroughly and objectively, and that is exactly what the directors have accomplished, regarding one of the darkest "concepts" of contemporary world history

| Dec 25, 2019

Condemns Red China's single-child policy that ran from 1979 until 2015 to fend off its population crisis.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 22, 2019

Grand atrocities pile atop private heartbreak as this powerful film unfolds.

| Dec 18, 2019

What eventually emerges is a peerless portrait of collective trauma - a devastating look at how this law not only sociologically gutted a country but made everyone complicit in the crime.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2019

[The film exposes] the human side of this nightmare [and] how the policy's repercussions will linger for generations well beyond China's own borders.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 9, 2019

One Child Nation speaks to both the policy's methods and reverberating traumas. Wang takes viewers along with her as she tries to figure out how these actions were possible for so long in the country she loved.

| Nov 26, 2019

The film drowns in its own dispersion. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 21, 2019