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- 100Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe biblical root of the [Dekalog] may suggest didacticism on its face, but whatever morals are advanced are decidedly ambivalent.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThey are adults, for the most part outside organized religion, faced with situations in their own lives that require them to make moral choices. You shouldn’t watch the films all at once, but one at a time. Then if you are lucky and have someone to talk with, you discuss them, and learn about yourself. Or if you are alone, you discuss them with yourself, as so many of Kieslowski’s characters do.
- 100ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThroughout the history of film, there has been a select group of standout pictures -- movies that, for technical or artistic reasons, have made an indelible imprint on viewers. Taken as one ten-hour exploration of the human experience, Decalogue is deserving of a place in that unique cadre of films.
- 100Village VoiceBilge EbiriVillage VoiceBilge EbiriDekalog certainly lives up to its reputation as a mind-altering masterpiece. You marvel at the precision of its filmmaking even as it spreads an atmosphere of moral unease.
- 100The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe Decalogue finds Kieslowski and co-scenarist Krzysztof Piesiewicz turning a delicate cycle of intimate, funny, heartbreaking, and compassionate works into a symphony of human fallibility.
- 100Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonKieslowski's beautiful, sad and clear-eyed The Decalogue -- an overwhelming psychological and spiritual epic for our times -- faces the darkness, sends out a song against the storm.
- 100The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe profound pleasures they offer derive not only from their deft metaphysical playfulness but also from their storytelling genius.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe stories are shocking, tender, sometimes funny, with a soap-opera abundance of plot. Always, the camera stares, respectfully neutral about ordinary people grappling — inconsistently, as men and women do — with the ordinary mysteries of being human. You’ll stare back, amazed it’s taken more than a decade to spread the word.