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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 05 Jun 2011

Viewers should know that the film's resolution, though admirably restrained and unsentimental, is devastatingly sad…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Jan 2011

And yet the great conundrum of the Holocaust is that it was perpetrated by human beings, not monsters…

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Review of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

By Marc Mohan (821) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 23 Jul 2010

Turns out this is a thoughtful, well-acted film that manages to view this most inconceivable of travesties through the eyes of child without…

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By Derek Elley (230) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Jul 2010

Opening half-hour has some of the best stuff in the movie, walking a precarious line between black irony and showing the war from a totally…

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Review of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 20 Mar 2010

Because its gaze is so level and so unyielding, it stands as one of the better dramatic films made on this subject (although it's not nearly…

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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jun 2009

This might have had some potential as a German exercise in self-examination, but as a tony BBC Films production, with the actors all speaking…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 08 May 2009

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas should be heartbreaking, but it isn't…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Oct 2008

An appalling, jaw-dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares…

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