In Darkness
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74 out of 100

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7.1 out of 10

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  • Summary: In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling g activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews
    as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger. (Sony Classics)    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 36
  3. Negative: 1 out of 36
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Feb 23, 2012
    100
    In Darkness is an extraordinary movie, and somehow good art creates its own uplift.
  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Peter Bradshaw
    Mar 16, 2012
    80
    There is release at the end of this fine film, but no euphoria; just a sense of having come through a period of evil, the memory of whose darkness will never entirely lift.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Dec 6, 2011
    60
    You know the money-over-morality argument will eventually tilt toward righteousness, yet the film's turn toward charcoal-sketch notions of good and evil only fuels a simplistic view of historical tragedy in the worst sort of way.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Jaime N. Christley
    Feb 6, 2012
    12
    It's the rare film that should not introduce new story elements or characters past its first act. In Darkness, a garbage movie applying for unlimited credit on the most meager collateral, is that film.

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
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  1. jeremyp
    8
    A taut thriller about a true story of a dozen jews hiding out in a sewage system under Warsaw in 1944-45. Their savior is a Catholic Pole who starts off as your usual anti semitic Polish peasant type yet develops, against his own fear and biases, into a true hero, warts and all. His motivation starts off as greed (they pay him in cash and jewelry) but grows from that to humanitarian concern, in part due to his more liberal wife. The characters are well developed and show an honest diversity of humans all dealing with imprisonment, terror, and starvation. A well crafted movie that tells itself without undue drama or pity. I'm not sure how well it will play out in Poland, a country well known for it's depravity and soullessness to it's own Jewish citizens.… Collapse
  2. TheDRauch
    8
    While certainly not the only film to touch base on the horrors of the holocaust,
  3. DTDunn
    7
    It is the hallmark of a good quality foreign film that reach a point where you overlook that fact that you are reading the dialog. This is that sort of film. The story is compelling and the pacing is excellent. Well worth your time.… Expand
  4. CitizenCharlie
    4
    In Darkness is aptly titled. This film is incredibly dark, both in a lighting sense and its subject matter. Based on the book, In the Sewers of Lvov: a Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust, In Darkness joins a long line of films which document Jewish ghettos during World War II. The story follows an individual group of Jews who evade the Nazis once the ghetto massacre begins. The group dug a hole from one of their small apartments which leads down into the murky mess of the Lvov, Poland sewers. The resident lord of the sewers is Lvovâ… Expand

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