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

[A] powerful documentary...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2019

The filmmakers' politics aside, 'One Child Nation' is overwhelmingly, and on multiple levels, a pro-life film.

| Original Score: A | Aug 30, 2019

[A] houghtful and sobering dissection of the human toll of government rule.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 28, 2019

The one-child era is still recent enough to exist in living memory, but that won't always be the case; given authoritarian governments' habit of rewriting history to their liking, One Child Nation feels like an essential document.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2019

One Child Nation does not flinch from critiquing mass complicity and the broader cultural logic - specifically the indoctrination into party politics - undergirding it.

| Aug 19, 2019

Wang hopes her film will serve to bear witness to the suffering of this shameful period, now being purged from the collective memory with "Nineteen Eighty-Four"-like efficiency.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2019

As a rule, talking heads do not make for compelling film. But such heads, and such talk.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2019

[Nanfu] Wang began this film as a way to rediscover her own past. It does far more than that. It will help ensure that the full tragedy of those years is not forgotten. Anyone who sees this film is not likely to forget.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 16, 2019

In a very full and riveting 85 minutes, "One Child Nation" assembles a huge story together from many small, crucial pieces.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2019

This is an important film, if often a difficult one to watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 14, 2019

This sort of film calls for bracing yourself and keeping your eyes open. Funny how many of those there are these days.

| Aug 12, 2019

It's stunning, it's sickening, it's heartbreaking.

| Aug 12, 2019

Its directness and intimacy lend an indelibility that encyclopedic framing could never approximate. The one-child policy haunts Wang, and she wants it to haunt the viewer, too.

| Aug 9, 2019

What we learn is fascinating and troubling, albeit within a narrow range.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2019

Shocking as it may be, One Child Nation needs to be seen.

| Aug 8, 2019

More horrifying than any screamer you'll see this year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2019

Soul-baring and furious, the documentary "One Child Nation" takes a powerful, unflinching look at China's present through its past.

| Aug 8, 2019

The individual stories that make up "One Child Nation," illuminate an entire history of institutional corruption, medical brutality and pervasive misogyny.

| Aug 8, 2019