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Not only is the film a powerful historical record and a warning for future generations, it is an essential reminder to people, including many in Japan today, who might deny that this massacre ever occurred. As such, Nanking honors the highest calling of documentary filmmaking.Full Review

James Greenberg
The Hollywood Reporter

Thorough and sadly engrossing documentary.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Nanking, directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, does justice to this tragedy even though it makes the mistake of mixing the testimony of actual participants with staged readings from actors subbing for real people.Full Review

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

The horrific 1937-38 massacre of more than 200,000 Chinese during the early days of the Japanese occupation gets a polished presentation in Nanking.Full Review

Justin Chang
Variety

Nanking both calls attention to a horrifying set of war crimes that remains little known in the West and crafts an impossible-but-true hymn to the power of the individual conscience.Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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