Domestic Violence
Metascore
85 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Results are illuminating, harrowing, and riveting.
  2. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    100
    Judged both as reporting and as art -- many of Wiseman's films have a poetic density of structure -- it is a series without parallel in movie history. [11 Feb 2002, p. 92]
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  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    90
    Wiseman lets the material breathe in a manner unique to the subject.
  4. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    90
    If I didn't believe that the experience of watching Domestic Violence would change the world for the better, I wouldn't believe in the power of movies. And I wouldn't do what I do.
  5. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Reece Pendleton
    90
    Devastating.
  6. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    88
    Be forewarned: The movie lasts three hours and 16 minutes, and nearly all of it deals with subjects that polite society (and even rude society) tends to ignore or evade.
  7. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    Wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror.

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