It must unfold as a surprise for you. It pretends to roll back history. You will see how. It is unutterably depressing, because history can never undo itself, and is with us forever." "Come and See" appears on many lists of films considered the best. In 2008, "Come and See" was placed at number 60 on "Empire" magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" in 2008. It also made Channel 4's list of 50 Films to See Before You Die and was ranked number 24 in "Empire" magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. Phil de Semlyen of "Empire" has described the work as "Elim Klimov’s seriously influential, deeply unsettling Belarusian opus. No film – not "Apocalypse Now", not "Full Metal Jacket" – spells out the dehumanising impact of conflict more vividly, or ferociously ... An impressionist masterpiece and possibly the worst date movie ever." It ranked 154 among critics, and 30 among directors, in the 2012 "Sight & Sound" polls of the greatest films ever made. The film is generally considered one of the greatest anti-war movies ever made, and one with the most historically accurate depictions of the crimes on the Eastern Front. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97%, based on 31 reviews, and an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "As effectively anti-war as movies can be, "Come and See" is a harrowing odyssey through the worst that humanity is capable of, directed with bravura intensity by Elem Klimov." Klimov did not make any more films after "Come and See", leading some critics to speculate as to why. In 2001, Klimov said, "I lost interest in making films ... Everything that was possible I felt I had already done." "Come and See" was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In 2017, the film received an official restoration overseen by Karen Shakhnazarov. It won the Venice Classics Award for "Best Restored Film", and was also shown in several European independent cinemas again. In 2001 the film was released on DVD in the United States by Kino Lorber. This release is currently out-of-print. The film became available on FilmStruck, the streaming service for the Criterion Collection from its opening on 1 November 2016 to its closing on 29 November 2018, and from November 2019 on the new Criterion Channel service.