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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanSteven Meyer's deeply affecting documentary, narrated by Laurie Anderson, takes us back to a camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, Majdanek, in order to honor those who left everything behind.
- 70The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe film would be stronger if it told us a little more about what the survivors have been doing since the camp was liberated by the Soviets in 1944, but their reactions to revisiting the camp are wrenching to watch.
- 70Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerWith the survivors' physical presence amongst Nazi slaughterhouses as its own powerful statement, Buried Prayers is a nonfiction work that confronts Holocaust atrocities from a piercing ground-level view.
- 50Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSteven Meyer's documentary treads a middle ground between illumination and cheap waterworks.
- 40VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibDocumentary's insistent inflation of buried gold jewelry and watches into symbols of heroic defiance and transcendental tragedy rings hollow in the wake of weightier Holocaust testimonials.