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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Oct 2012

Its sentimentality is muted by the thought that this moment of peace actually did take place, among men who were punished for it, and who mostly…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 01 Sep 2012

Merry Christmas is long and ponderous, but for a few moments, its heavy hand is refreshingly light and agile, and you feel something other…

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By Carina Chocano (358) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Jun 2012

The uncomplicated humanism of Joyeux Noël, with its Christmas message of peace, feels at once irrefutable and refreshing…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 29 Apr 2012

An intense but fairly brief battle scene near the start reminds us of the unique horrors of this war…

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By Jami Bernard (708) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 25 Dec 2011

You can't go wrong with an uplifting, anti-war story like this, but director Christian Carion trowels on the schmaltz, and the movie's emphasis…

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By Roeyl (15) on 01 May 2011

A very beautiful movie, very sentimental. It represents perfectly a human aspect in war like no other movie did…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 27 Oct 2010

The first two-thirds of Joyeux Noel are strangely inert, but the film ends with a moving and surprisingly sophisticated meditation on the definition…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 Jun 2010

It's a heart-warmer, a well-meaning movie that sets out to wring a modern message (and preferably some tears) from a famous but largely forgotten…

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By Melissa Levine (71) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 31 May 2010

But except for a few missteps, the movie is so beautifully and sensitively rendered in its particulars, in its characterizations of soldiers…

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By Ray Bennett (125) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 Jan 2010

With a cast of Scottish, German and French actors all speaking their own language, writer-director Christian Carion has fashioned a deeply…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 03 Dec 2008

Joyeux Noël finishes up as no more than a garden-variety tearjerker, neatly packaged for Oscar candidacy…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 06 Jul 2007

Carion's cri de coeur is at once a historical chronicle, an ode to the European Community, and a not-so-veiled critique of a 21st-century war…

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By Fill (1) on 25 Feb 2007

Those who don't like the film because it's too contrived and cloying should go back to commenting on National Lampoon and American Pie fims…

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By Taylorb (4) on 30 Dec 2006

I have heard about the actual event, and it was captured just as I thought it might have been…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Sep 2006

Based on a true story, the movie was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film; some might castigate its unabashed sentimentality, but I…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 04 Aug 2006

It makes for a fascinating exploration of the human experience…

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By Chrisp. (18) on 15 Jun 2006

Failed to evoke any empathy towards the characters at all…

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By Johnp. (34) on 31 May 2006

An excellent film. Very well done…

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By Keng (79) on 07 Apr 2006

Movie is haunting, sad, poignant, and beautifully done. I didn't find it a bit sappy…

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By Tracyr. (16) on 17 Mar 2006

Lots of missing the point here…

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