In its own quiet way, it's among the most important films you're likely to see this year.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A poignant, deeply ­intimate history of one family.
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New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Much more rewarding than its earnest title or its very modest production values -- it's basically an ambitious home video -- would suggest.
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Boston GlobeJanice Page
Boston GlobeJanice Page
What'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.
Offers no answers and is all the more moving for it. An honest befuddlement may be the most apt and true response to the world as it is.
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The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Menachem 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.
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
In 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.
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Washington Post
Washington Post
Thoughtful documentary.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Philosophical 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.
Daum 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.