A stunning four-part satellite to Claude Lanzmann's masterwork. Full Review

The installments... have a cumulative power. Their points of confluence - the deaths of family members, improbable escapes, the hardship of life in ghettos and camps - underscore the horror and, at times, the grim absurdity of surviving extermination. Full Review

Rating: B- -- Perhaps Four Sisters is best considered a parting gesture from Lanzmann, ensuring that, in his body of work at least, these four "sisters" should endure as more than just a footnote. Full Review

The accumulation of detail, the sense of the range of outrages seen and experienced, is conveyed by allowing these women to truly sink into their narratives. Full Review

Rating: 4/4 -- By uniting these four interviews in particular, Claude Lanzmann emphasizes the impossibility of moral clarity in the unthinkable circumstances into which Germany's invasion of Eastern Europe threw its Jewish population. Full Review

The approximately 270-minute running time becomes a hushed demand for the viewer to sit with historical cruelty and listen as its victims teach to the future, its effect a cumulative cry of warning for today. Full Review

Rating: 8/10 -- Lanzmann's original intent was to step-by-step document the Final Solution, so female survivors were seen only briefly. This is a timely response to Holocaust denial. Full Review