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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatAlex SavelievFilm ThreatAlex SavelievIt’s a thrilling, poignant accomplishment, as uncompromisingly bleak as it is epic in scope.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe East is an unrelenting condemnation of the Netherlands’ misguided attempt to return its colonial outreach to a time long gone while hitting most (if not all) of the “doomed war” niche genre movie tropes without ever actually teetering into cliche. That’s an ever-tricky move that Taihuttu aces.
- 50RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsThe East is essentially divided into two halves, and neither is more illuminating than the other.
- 40The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe details may be novel — even eye-opening for some — but this story of white guilt and brutality feels mighty old.