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  • Summary: The heartbreaking story of a Jewish family living in Nazi-era Czechoslovakia.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Despite a somewhat unpolished look and a few slips into cliche, the film makes up in sincerity what it lacks in sophistication.
  2. 60
    The material continues to carry its inherent emotional power and moral importance. As banal as the telling may be -- and at times, All My Loved Ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention.
  3. 60
    It traces a sustained and moving portrait of the worldly Sam, whose despair as the society he embraced abandons him is both clear-eyed and devastating.
  4. 38
    "Schindler's List" it ain't, and the whole is rendered occasionally surreal by Janusz Stoklosa's laughably heavy-handed score.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. LeeAnnH.
    10
    One reviewer say it "suffer[s] from an overabundance of pathos. " I think may of the professional reviewers suffer from an overabundance of sophistication, which lessens their ability to experience compassion and an open heart. Expand