85
Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAn exquisite and powerful documentary -- one whose elegance only heightens its devastating impact.
- 90VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe definitive screen chronicle to date of homosexual persecution under the Third Reich.
- 90Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt's astonishing, and moving.
- 90The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderThe New York TimesLawrence Van GelderAt once admirable and deeply unsettling.
- 90L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorSpeaks so eloquently for itself, there's not much more for me to do than urge you to get over to the Nuart for the one week it's playing in Los Angeles.
- 88Miami HeraldMiami HeraldIt's an eye opener to how quickly a society can switch from being open and tolerant to pointing fingers -- and worse -- at those deemed different.
- 83Portland OregonianPortland OregonianPerhaps the most disturbing fact in the film comes in the text at the end: Paragraph 175 remained on the books in both halves of postwar Germany until the late 1960s.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIlluminating, poignant and heartening.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA worthy addition to the growing canon of Holocaust documentaries.