The footage itself is front and center in this haunting documentary that offers a historical snippet of a Jewish community just a year before the start of WWII.

| Mar 4, 2025

Not your conventional Holocaust documentary…. Fragments get incessantly replayed, slowed down, reversed, enlarged, and otherwise altered to sniff out clues and provide context, sometimes agonizingly so.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 16, 2024

An essential viewing, especially given the rise of antisemitism in this country at the moment, that celebrates life as much as it does remind us of how tenuous it is.

| Feb 12, 2024

Bianca Stigter keeps the memory of the dead alive by preserving the last known artifact of their existence.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2023

It is aware of its limitations and is all the more powerful for it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 25, 2023

Stigter’s memorable achievement here is not just a lengthening; it’s also a deepening and an emotionally enriching one.

| Jan 20, 2023

This very unusual documentary gives the viewer a haunting glimpse into a world just before its destruction. It is like seeing video of Pompeii just before the eruption.

| Original Score: B | Jan 6, 2023

Stigter reworks Kurtz’s footage, pores over it, and makes us wonder about the fate of each of the people we see on the screen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2022

Part detective procedural, part memorial, its cumulative power is devastating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2022

Thoroughly compelling and haunting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2022

It’s unnerving and important film-making about grief, loss and bearing witness. Moving pictures indeed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2022

... Film can’t return the dead to life. But it can hold precious knowledge: that lives were lived, and how, and where.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2022

This is a gripping historical investigation.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 30, 2022

These people looking back at us seem both shudderingly close and ineffably far away. Whatever their ages, they are rendered forever young. Their ultimate fate imbues the imagery with an overwhelming poignancy that is almost impossible to comprehend.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2022

Bianca Stigter has given us one of the most compelling documentaries of 2022.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 13, 2022

Glenn Kurtz’s investigations into the town and its people reveals a place of dynamic life and, from the happy faces we see, a pleasant one. Just one year later, we learn, and the Nazis invaded Poland...

| Original Score: A | Sep 1, 2022

The documentary Three Minutes—A Lengthening has a three-minute amateur film as its centerpiece, but this non-fiction movie is an effective story of the long-lasting and devastating effects of the Holocaust.

| Aug 31, 2022

From outsider experts like Glenn Kurtz to an elderly survivor who spots himself in the footage to the professional narration by Helena Bonham Carter, every voice leaves its own distinct mark.

| Aug 30, 2022

It's really quite a remarkable achievement.

| Aug 26, 2022

More than the sadness of watching ordinary people long gone, Three Minutes conveys the eerie sorrow that comes from our awareness...

| Aug 26, 2022