These battered, scratched pieces of film are eloquent testimony for the terrible offences that happened.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Rithy Panh's cinema is an exemplary case of the imperative to bear witness.

| Apr 15, 2014

Many films have examined from many vantages the Khmer Rouge's nightmare reign, notably Roland Joff's 1985 Oscar winner The Killing Fields.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2014

As haunting as it is haunted, "The Missing Picture" leaves viewers' heads rattling with ghosts.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 3, 2014

A uniquely subjective account of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, "The Missing Picture" is the work of Rithy Panh, a Cambodian native who left his homeland when he was an adolescent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2014

[It] aspires to a poetry about barbarism that will not let us forget.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 3, 2014

What remains disturbing and puzzling is the realisation that somewhere along the line the real and the false change places, and that Panh is able to move us more deeply with his dioramas than by telling the same atrocious story in a straightforward way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2014

The film captures how Pol Pot took Mao's Great Leap Forward to new levels of Marxist madness.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 21, 2014

Panh uses the props and eerie clips from Khmer Rouge propaganda newsreels to tell about his family, and his country. Along with starkly poetic narration, read by Randal Douc, the effect is devastating, without a single scene of actual bloodshed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 20, 2014

These miniatures magnify their subjects, and ennoble them. The picture is anguishing to see, but it isn't missing anymore.

| Mar 20, 2014

Panh believes that those who survive such oppression are obligated to speak about it - and this chronicle is impossible not to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2014

A survivor's story,a political statement and an eloquent meditation on images and memory. The miniatures and the film are exquisite works of art infused with living memory

| Mar 20, 2014

This is a first-person account of astonishing suffering, yet the experience of watching "The Missing Picture" is not punishing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2014

Panh blends documentary, personal memoir and eccentric artistic experiment ...

| Mar 20, 2014

As an examination of memory and experience and how they shape us, "The Missing Picture" is meaningful beyond its specific subject matter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2014

The audacity of "The Missing Picture" - a brilliant documentary about a child who held on to life in Cambodia's killing fields - is equaled only by its soulfulness.

| Mar 19, 2014

The Missing Picture is so immediate, so vital, it practically breathes. Not all memoirs need to exist. But the gentle urgency of Panh's story is right there in the filmmaking.

| Mar 18, 2014

The conceit is tremendously daring, but one with a huge payoff, suggesting an evil that can't be fully processed by young eyes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 18, 2014

The Missing Picture isn't a straightforward piece of storytelling, but more of a meditation on what happened [...] whenever the narration threatens to drift off into the ether, the figurines and models ultimately keep it on terra firma.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 18, 2014

Panh honors the Khmer Rouge's victims while staging the agony and responsibility of memory itself.

| Mar 17, 2014