Cambodian-born helmer Rithy Panh, who has chronicled his country's wounded soul in both features and documentaries, directly tackles the atrocities committed in the name of revolution in "S21: The ...
As movies enter their silly season, "S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine" arrives like a sobering splash of cold water. This devastating, elegantly simple documentary about the ravages of the ...
WHEN a documentary tries to focus on evil, when it zeros in on the people who committed unspeakable acts, there's a frustrating diffusion. It somehow never finds the target. The evil is always ...
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine revisits the most extreme Communist regime to ever decimate a society—nearly a quarter of the Cambodian population was killed ...
Rithy Panh’s moving documentary revisits the horrors of the Khmer Rouge’s Stalinist campaign against city dwellers and “politically incorrect” intellectuals in the 70s, focusing on the brutal torture ...
Rithy Panh’s compelling doc revisits the most extreme Communist regime to ever decimate a society—focusing on a detention center where 17,000 prisoners were “processed” and only three lived to tell ...