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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxIn its own quiet way, it's among the most important films you're likely to see this year.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA poignant, deeply ­intimate history of one family.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickMuch more rewarding than its earnest title or its very modest production values -- it's basically an ambitious home video -- would suggest.
- 75Boston GlobeJanice PageBoston GlobeJanice PageWhat's unique about this documentary is that it grips history with both hands, shakes it, examines it, and exits with the entire wrinkled contents bravely in tow.
- 70The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe New RepublicStanley KauffmannMenachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky succeed. Their documentary Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is, of all things, timely. It is also courageous.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckIn effect an elaborate home movie. But its examination of the long-lasting effects of evil on the psyche of its victims and their descendants is both thoughtful and much needed in these increasingly polarized times.
- 70Washington PostWashington PostThoughtful documentary.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoicePhilosophical ambitions notwithstanding, Hiding and Seeking is basically a personal essay, and the undeniably moving family saga takes over completely in the film's second half.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittDaum travels to Poland with his wife and their skeptical sons in this documentary, hoping to prove that people who are not Orthodox Jews like them are worthy of attention and compassion.