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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Aug 2013

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 Matthew Sorrento (173) for Film Threat (5,156) on 29 May 2013

A little sentimentality can fuel a lot of action, yet Zwick buries his film in cloying guilt, in the end sinking Defiance with the holocaust…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 02 Feb 2013

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 Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Oct 2012

There are lots of movies about Jews suffering, dying, and surviving in Europe during World War II, but precious few about Jews fighting back…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 10 May 2012

This promising premise is turned into basically an overgrown TV movie…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Feb 2012

As a drama - an epic drama, no less, clocking in at 137 minutes - its fascination is diffused, and the movie becomes something of a long slog…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 Nov 2011

It's a heroic story, and Zwick frames it rather too strenuously as an antidote to the generic Holocaust stories of Jewish passivity and martyrdom…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 11 Oct 2011

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 Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 20 Jun 2011

The movie leaves you in an awful tangle of amazement and disbelief: Amazement that Tuvia Bielski did turn a group of civilians into a nimble…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Oct 2010

That butting of heads, as performed by actors as strong and soulful as Craig and Schreiber, lends Defiance an emotional charge, even as the…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 09 Jul 2009

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 Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Apr 2009

The best performance, because it's more nuanced, is by Liev Schreiber…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 03 Apr 2009

For all the film's flaws, this is a war story told with passion about a band of brothers that still has the power to inspire…

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