The Zone of Interest

An uncompromising and chilling vision of evil unlike any other film about Nazism.

Glazer takes a meticulously forensic approach to the pair, but it could never be said he’s putting them under a microscope. Far from it. He’s determined to keep them at a distance, perhaps afraid that a single close-up might taint the whole exercise.

It is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking from the opening credits to the closing ones.

Jonathan Glazer deliberately avoids the most familiar horrors of the Holocaust to show a further layer of inhumanity.

I don't think this is the banality of evil. I think it's the kind of screaming silent horror of indifference or callousness.

I left it shaken and stricken; it stayed with me, stubbornly, over the months that followed.

What shocks in all of this is Rudolf and Hedwig’s dedication to their way of life and their seeming surety that this is simply the way it’s going to be.

The screenplay, co-written by the author of the book of the same title, Martin Amis, and Glazer, is well crafted and spare.

[Glazer's] resolutely human film makes abundantly clear where he stands against the banality of evil we must collectively resist.

The most terrifying and unsettling movie of the year.