Review of The Book Thief (2013) by Zachary M — 09 May 2016

The scene with the child's chorus over lapped with the imagery of Jews being beaten and taken from their home was powerful and will stick out as a perfect example of a great scene in an otherwise mediocre movie. The acting from the three main leads is fine in its self. And it is nice and kind of weird seeing a World War 2 movie set in Germany that follows the lives on people other than in hiding Jews and/or the people trying to smuggle them out, though there is a bit of that.

Despite all of this, the film will go down as just another unremarkable adaptation in a world of ever more unremarkable adaptations.