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The Goebbles Experiment
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    A fascinating, veritable self-portrait, masterfully culled from a trove of archival materials.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    Brilliantly edited for drama and irony, The Goebbels Experiment juxtaposes little-seen German propaganda films with excerpts from Goebbels' diary.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    80
    A rare and chilling glimpse into a brilliant but toxic mind.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    Informative and illuminating.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    75
    Seeing what Hitler's propaganda minister saw, hearing only his diary entries and what he heard, we effectively live inside the monster's head.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    Weirdly enthralling film.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    Would be funny if it weren't so horrifying.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    Ultimately, the project suffers from a nearly complete lack of contextualization. We could surely use some background on Goebbels' complicity in mass genocide while listening to him brag about his beautiful, healthy children and happy family life.
  9. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    60
    Mostly though, The Goebbels Experiment proves that historical figures have the worst perspective on themselves.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Joshua Land
    50
    The master propagandist comes across here as a brooding, insecure megalomaniac--or at times, a bitchy member of a particularly malevolent high school clique, an effect enhanced by some of narrator Kenneth Branagh's English line readings.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    50
    A man whose name has become a byword for pure evil gets a disarming makeover in The Goebbels Experiment. Far from being the horror show expected from its title, Lutz Hachmeister's cool, almost anti-dramatic docu paints a portrait of an insecure manic-depressive solely through extracts from Joseph Goebbels' own voluminous diaries.
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