Metacritic-Rezensionen

A gripping thriller whose terror -- unfortunately -- comes from real life.

Scores its ultimate coup de grace though its interviews. Macdonald has lined up an amazing collection of interviewees.

Straightforward but nonetheless powerful documentary.

The film, built of interviews with participants, is fast-paced, utterly absorbing and ultimately tragic.

Impassioned and well-crafted, One Day in September is also grueling.

Sweeps us back into a terrifying and desperate string of events and makes us feel them - and, more crucially, understand them as well.

A gripping reminder of a brutal chapter of 20th-century history.

Nothing, however, can diminish the sense of horror we feel at what happened that day in September, while Macdonald's revelations and the candid comments he elicits more than make up for the film's less successful elements.

Given the power of its story, One Day in September seems at times to be pushing too hard.

One Day in September does "being there" very well -- I just wish director Macdonald had spent a little more time explaining why we should want to be there in the first place.