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By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 21 Dec 2013

While it's lavishly appointed and well acted, The Book Thief overemphasizes the redemptive value of the protagonist's art and underemphasizes,…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 17 Dec 2013

Rosa's transformation is at once the film's most vibrant and least irritating, even if it is as predictable as those of the people around her…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 14 Dec 2013

For all its splendid veracity to look at, authentically replicating wartime provincial Germany, The Book Thief struggles to find matching authenticity…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 14 Dec 2013

A masterful tale about life, made all the more effective by the fact that it is narrated by the supercilious voice of death…

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By Bruce Bennett (577) for Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (575) on 13 Dec 2013

Attempts to balance an opposing mix of sentiments and while not perfect, does an admirable job of telling a powerful story - even if it's not…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 13 Dec 2013

Great acting and a terrific plot save a storytelling flaw that has children not aging at all over a five-year period…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 10 Dec 2013

The movie lacks the nerve to treat death as anything more menacing than the tooth fairy…

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By Nightreviews (126) on 08 Dec 2013

There are movies that can be put in a category appropriately labelled ‘Oscar bait’; and if there is one film that exemplifies that best…

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By Tvjerry (1,783) on 02 Dec 2013

This is one of those trying-to-be-touching stories about a child growing up during war…

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By Qadosh (20) on 02 Dec 2013

What a charming and engaging movie. Thought the acting was superb and the storyline very well written…

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By Jcouch777 (13) on 02 Dec 2013

The acting is what raised my grade a whole point. Rush and Nelisse are perfectly cast with Nelisse shining above all others…

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By Blackthorne20 (2) on 01 Dec 2013

I normally read books before watching their film adaptations…

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By Aquaris475 (3) on 30 Nov 2013

The Book Thief is one of the best books I've read, and thankfully, the same can be said for the film adaptation…

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By Sparkvark111 (2) on 28 Nov 2013

This was a very good film. I think the critics are judging this way too hard…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for The Jewish Advocate (24) on 27 Nov 2013

In the larger scheme of Holocaust movies, The Book Thief is decidedly safe and middlebrow…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Fresno Bee (603) on 27 Nov 2013

In The Book Thief, young Canadian actress Sophie Nélisse finds a way to maintain a vulnerability that creates a natural sympathy for her character,…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Nov 2013

On the not-much-of-a-plus side, at over two hours long, sitting through The Book Thief engenders in the viewer some serious sympathy for the…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 26 Nov 2013

Clearly, the film, adapted from a book that was on The New York Times bestseller list for more than 200 weeks, has the best of intentions…

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By David Denby (676) for New Yorker (1,403) on 25 Nov 2013

Markus Zusak's enormously successful young-adult novel seems to have been adapted as a movie for middle-aged children…

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By Jamie S. Rich (140) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 25 Nov 2013

The Book Thief renders a dark history in the most bland and inoffensive hues. Most of its success relies on our foreknowledge of history…

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