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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 29 Mar 1991

Defiance presents itself as an explicit correction of the cultural record, a counterpoint to all those lachrymose World War II tales of helplessness…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 07 Dec 1989

The tale of the resistance movement in Belorussia is undeniably inspiring and ideally suited for a cinematic rendering…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 27 Sep 1989

It's an exciting action spectacle and a thoughtful, cumulatively moving family drama…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 15 May 1989

What is puzzling is how Edward Zwick has taken an extraordinary real-life story about a handful of people who defied huge odds, and turned…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 18 Dec 1988

It's an inspiring story, if one that doesn't need quite as much poetic inspiration as Ed Zwick's movie insists on giving it, with dialogue…

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By Josh Rosenblatt (154) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jul 1988

Zwick may be the definition of a modern blockbuster filmmaker, but he's also spent his entire career struggling to find the balance between…

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By Nev Pierce (205) for Empire (3,446) on 10 Nov 1986

An amazing true tale is somewhat diminished by second-hand storytelling: entirely admirable, largely entertaining, and yet curiously hollow…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 03 Nov 1983

The film isn't much of a character study; too many of its secondary characters are stereotypes, and it never fully engages our emotions the…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 23 Feb 1983

Depressingly predictable in its dialogue and dramatic beats, Defiance is most interesting as a study of unlikely leaders…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Jan 1983

The film should've aimed higher, given all that these people endured to have their story told…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Jul 1982

Zwick offers excitingly staged moments, but once you get past the novelty of WWII Jews acting this heroically macho, Defiance bogs down in…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 11 Apr 1981

The battle scenes are well choreographed and contain enough uncertainty to make them genuinely exciting, but one would expect no less from…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jul 1980

There are subtitles and vaguely East European accents; there is romance and rebirth, tears and regular pauses for gallows humor (at which we…

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