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Forgiving Dr. Mengele
Metascore
69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    This moving film explores the trauma of a Holocaust survivor with rare complexity.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    It's hard to know whether to be impressed or appalled by Eva Mozes Kor, the Holocaust survivor in Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's fascinating documentary who has made forgiving the Nazis her life's work.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    The very title suggests that this compelling and provocative film is going to be different from other Holocaust documentaries.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    80
    An impressively polished documentary by Bob Hercules and Cheri Hughes. Perhaps even more thought-provoking than its co-helmers intended, pic is bound to spark conversations and debate.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    It's clear that Kor's goal is to keep people talking, and thinking, about impossibly difficult subjects. And there's no debating her success in that regard.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    Kor's intentions are beyond reproach, but her campaign raises discomfiting questions.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    75
    Though some of the heated exchanges in Forgiving Dr. Mengele seem awkward and staged, they put Kor at the center of a riveting debate over how best to come to terms with past horrors, and the potential (and limits) of putting them to rest.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    70
    A worthy addition to the ever-growing canon of Holocaust-related films.
  9. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Levine
    70
    This uneven but riveting documentary chronicles Kor's journey to a kind of grace little understood (or appreciated) by many fellow Jews and survivors.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    70
    For a film about death-camp survivors Forgiving Dr. Mengele is surprisingly uplifting and, at times, even lighthearted.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    In many respects, Forgiving Dr. Mengele is an ordinary documentary, stylistically and technically unexceptional. But its subject enobles the work. So does Kor : determined, indomitable, and by the end of the movie, a symbol herself of both survival and mercy.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    50
    An extraordinary woman like Eva Kor deserves a less ordinary biography.
  13. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    50
    Eva Mozes Kor, the lecturer and activist at the center of Forgiving Dr. Mengele, is most notable for her zeal in refusing to be a victim.
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