Must Go! In Darkness by jwagman One of the most harrowing experiences I have ever had in the movies. A great story told with great cinematic prowess. Not for the fainthearted....
Must Go! In Darkness by Peneflix The movie is assiduous in depicting the deleterious, desultory conditions of life in the sewers: hunger, filth, boredom; rats, initially terrifying, become pets; human nature struggles to prevail:...
Go InDarkness by gene7lakes Excellent portrayal of an ignoble part of our history-a little depressing to sit through, but especially useful for young people to see what some of us older people were aware of during World War...
100 San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle In Darkness is an extraordinary movie, and somehow good art creates its own uplift. Read full review
91 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum The fine Polish director Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa) pays her respects with a daringly murky-looking movie that demands viewers enter the void too and meet Socha and his Jews as real, flawed men and women behaving in flawed ways under suffocating conditions. Read full review
85 NPR | Ella Taylor The elephant in the room of any discussion of Poland and the Jews is that country's less-than-glorious record of betrayal and collaboration with the Nazis. Holland, who is half-Jewish and whose mother was active in the Polish Resistance, doesn't shrink from that legacy. Read full review
80 Wall Street Journal | John Anderson What makes this nominee for the best-foreign-film Oscar singular among Holocaust movies is the way it characterizes the banality of life underground. Read full review