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It all has a ghostly feel, like eerie murmurs during a sance: the static of history heard on a short-wave radio.Full Review

Stephen Holden
The New York Times

The surreal images lack narration and talking heads, which is no problem. In fact, the device makes the shocking footage more compelling.Full Review

V.A. Musetto
New York Post

Loznitsa doesn't adorn the eerie footage with talking heads and factoid title cards. What narrative there is, along with a sense of incrementally mounting horror, emerges unbidden from the images.Full Review

Village Voice

Told without voiceover, explanatory subtitles or any other contextualizing material, Russian docu Blockade looks unlikely to show up on the History Channel as it stands now. Nevertheless, this absorbing account of the 900-day siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) during WWII, told entirely through re-edited archive footage with freshly made sound, reps poignant viewing as it focuses on the daily lives of the city's inhabitants.Full Review

Leslie Felperin
Variety

The film makes you squirm as well as empathize, but it does need narration.Full Review

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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