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With his carefully controlled pacing and superb use of sound, Sarkies draws the viewer deep into the experience of a town caught completely off-guard by a kind of violence they could never have expected, and won't soon forget.Full Review

Ken Fox
TV Guide

As sensitive to its subject as it is stark in its rendering.Full Review

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

A taut thriller based on the tragedy, which remains the most lethal mass killing in New Zealand history.Full Review

V.A. Musetto
New York Post

Chilling, often moving docudrama focuses not so much on the mayhem or murderer, but on the bewildered, occasionally courageous reactions of ordinary citizens caught in the inexplicable violence.Full Review

Dennis Harvey
Variety

The director confronts horror without wallowing in it, a strategy befitting a film that’s not about how people die, but how they live.Full Review

Matt Zoller Seitz
The New York Times
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