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This once-banned Russian epic is a crazed exercise in historical revisionism centering on Grigori Rasputin, one of the Twentieth Century’s most fascinating personages. This film’s take on the man, as an out-and-out lunatic, is questionable to be sure, but it’s such an irresistibly delirious viewing experience that I was willing to go along with it. [...]

This shattering, impressionistic Russian epic can be viewed as a hallucinatory depiction of the horrors of war, an unforgiving expose of Nazi atrocities that makes SCHINDLER’S LIST look like LASSIE COME HOME, or as a straightforward descent into madness. COME AND SEE is a visionary masterpiece in any interpretation, a film from which no viewer [...]

One of the few films I can confidently assert will “shock the unshockable.” THE CHEKIST is a blistering look at an executioner going about his work in the wake of the Russian Revolution that’s guaranteed to traumatize the most hardened viewers.