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Death and the Maiden doesn't always escape its contraption origins, but it ends with one of the most honest-and poetic- reckonings of human evil in modern movies. It's Polanski braying at his own bitter moon.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

As vivid and suspenseful as Roman Polanski has made this claustrophobic tale of a torture victim turning the tables on her putative tormentor, one is still left with a film in which each character represents a mouthpiece for an ideology.Full Review

Todd McCarthy
Variety

Death and the Maiden is a streamlined razor-ride of a movie: taut, riveting, and a psychological horror show that will leave nail-marks in your palms for days afterwards.Full Review

Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

Mr. Polanski's brilliance with the camera turns Ariel Dorfman's well-meaning but pretentious play about human rights into a harrowing experience.Full Review

Caryn James
The New York Times

Death and the Maiden is all about acting. In other hands, even given the same director, this might have been a dreary slog.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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