The Zone of Interest

Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen of I'm Jeffrey Rex

2024-02-28

A disturbing vortex of darkness obscured by mundanity, it is an impressive, masterful, and powerful piece of art filmmaking but if you think it sounds hellish or repetitive, then you’re not exactly wrong. Read more

Filipe Freitas of Always Good Movies

2024-03-21

It’s a powerful and memorable affair that, offering a different perspective of the Holocaust, may feel oppressive despite the absence of explicit violence. Benefitting from impressive performances by the pair of German actors, Glazer portrays this drama with the dazzling smoothness of a movie-making natural. Read more

Ruth Maramis of FlixChatter

2024-02-23

It’s certainly one of the most provocative and thought-provoking films of the year, a totally visceral experience that’s hard to shake. Read more

Eric Hillis of The Movie Waffler

2024-02-03

Comparing a movie to watching someone else play a video game is generally a highly negative critique, but in this case it adds to the maddening sense of helplessness as we watch history unfold, its controls in someone else's hands. Read more

Hope Madden of Maddwolf

2024-01-25

There’s nothing insignificant about Glazer or his remarkable spate of compelling, surprising, thought-provoking films, capped off with his latest, The Zone of Interest. Read more

Don Shanahan of Every Movie Has a Lesson

2024-02-04

To stay on the ground and within the domestic sets, Żal masterfully utilizes long takes, dolly track movement, and precise long-shot framing to maintain an arm’s length, hallway’s length, or lawn’s length of observational voyeurism captured with complete precision. Read more