- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Feb 22, 2008
- Summary:
- Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 23
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Mixed: 0 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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100The Counterfeiters is in its own smart, trim fashion "The Bridge on the River Kwai" of concentration-camp sagas. Also based (like Kwai) on a real-life story, this movie starts small but becomes a miniature epic of overreach and moral drift.
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91Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, The Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics, an Austrian TV actor with a pugnacious anvil of a head, is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor.
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90This poses some tricky moral questions, and its troubling ambiguities rank a cut above the dubious uplift of "Schindler's List."
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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MikeD.10
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SusanM.10This movie was incredibly well-done. It's clearly better when Europeans make WWII films - they do it much better than Hollywood.
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RolandB.5
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