An extraordinary and chilling documentary, “The Act of Killing” chronicles exactly that in unprecedented ways.

| Nov 25, 2024

A rare example of an international true crime story that got the documentary film treatment, and an even rarer example of killers participating in a film and reenacting their crimes.

| Sep 19, 2024

"The Act of Killing” is unquestionably the most innovative piece of documentary filmmaking to come out this decade.

| Jul 30, 2023

Joshua Oppenheimer’s elegantly disturbing investigation.

| Jan 24, 2023

A potent exposé that unveils one of the darker secrets of our world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The results are astonishing, terrifying and eventually profound, as the men start to confront their own pasts.

| Aug 23, 2021

The bloodbath and coup in Indonesia were the outcome of the drive by US imperialism to gain control of the natural and strategic resources of the archipelago, known as the "Jewel of Asia."

| Feb 27, 2021

The Act of Killing might be the most powerful and cathartic documentary I've ever seen.

| Feb 24, 2021

Demonstrates with chilling authenticity that nobody thinks they're the bad guys.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Everything that occurs in The Act of Killing is outrageous and offensive and inhumane.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

There are few films that have legitimately left a chill down my spine. The Act of Killing is one of them.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 27, 2020

There's a terrifying singularity to Joshua Oppenheimer's examination of trauma, memory and denial.

| Dec 23, 2019

The Act of Killing is a brutal, unrelenting cinematic experience. It can't be reduced to one simple trope or theme and really can't even evoke one overriding, overarching emotion.

| Original Score: A | Aug 27, 2019

The Act of Killing is important and unique in illustrating the banality of evil.

| Aug 6, 2019

Soaked in blood and haunted by ghosts, The Act of Killing is not an easy watch at all. But it is an incredibly rewarding one; this truly is cinema at its most important.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2019

One of the great, unique, often intangible and sometimes scary potentials of the film medium is the way that cinematic artifice can achieve something more profound than mere fact.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 19, 2019

A disturbingly comfortable voyage into the mindset of evil and the psychology of a murderer(s), Oppenheimer's film is like nothing you'll have ever seen before.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 26, 2019

The Act of Killing is the only 100% original work of cinema to come out this year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 21, 2019

Beyond this intellectual actualisation, I can't help but think that the film falls short of its supposed brilliance. Surely watching socially or politically charged documentaries should achieve something more than cognition!

| Jan 8, 2019

If Oppenheimer's aim is to question and investigate what life the past has in the present, he has succeeded in a staggeringly original way.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 3, 2019