- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Sep 15, 2000
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100Has moments of profound poignance, though it lacks the overall dramatic impact of "The Long Way Home."
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100At its slowest, the film has value as a historical document. At its best, the film gives a human face to stories of unimaginable suffering and unexpected triumph.
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100A marvelous picture and a highly unusual journey in and around the Holocaust.
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88A fitting tribute to these displaced children because it so simply and elegantly personalizes their place in the most horrific chapter of 20th-century history.
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88Harris brings into focus a nearly forgotten success story, filling in another blank in the ultimate mosaic of the 20th century's greatest tragedy.
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88There have been many documentaries about the Holocaust in recent years, but this one really stands out.
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88A powerful and moving contribution to the cinema of the Holocaust.
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88Proves there are Holocaust stories still to be told.
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83The dramatic power, though, comes entirely from the eloquence of old people, shot in medium close-up, barely moving as they remember things.
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80A haunting tale of the physical survival and emotional confusion of children who were simultaneously required to build a new life and hold fast to the memory of an old one, in the hope of resuming it after the war.
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It's worth shelling out to see this doc on a theater screen: The enthralling archival footage of Germany in the 1930s is rare stuff indeed, of superb photographic quality.
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80Fascinating and engrossing on every conceivable level
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80A heartfelt documentary.
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80Because Into the Arms of Strangers is as much a story about childhood as it is about the Holocaust, it's an especially moving and effective piece of work.
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80This moving tribute to a handful of candles flickering in the darkness has the power to summon us--one prays--to our better selves.
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80Heartbreaking yet truly inspirational.
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80To my taste, the only serious drawback to this absorbing film is Harris's unimaginative adherence to documentary convention, which obliges him to "illustrate" the voice-overs even when the material matches the narratives only in fictional terms.
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78Unfamiliar to most these days and it goes without saying that Harris performs a great service in the eyes of history with his film.
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75Documentary of riveting personal stories.
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75Misses some creative opportunities to really drive this story home, but it's a naturally haunting story nonetheless.
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75Movingly recounts a hitherto untold story in the voices of the people who lived it.
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70Both informative and intensely moving.
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70Fluidly edited, subtle.
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60Its subject matter is intrinsically upsetting.
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40Breaks no new ground.
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