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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 29 Apr 2008

Ruzowitzky's film is certainly a worthy one -- and an entertaining, intelligent one -- anchored to one of the most mesmerizing performances…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Apr 2008

Films about moral issues are not uncommon. Films that leave the questions open are considerably rarer…

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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 24 Apr 2008

an honest effort to sound painful human depths…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 23 Apr 2008

This dark, absorbing thriller is not just a moral exercise in the awful choices faced by those determined to survive history's worst genocide…

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By Jonathan F. Richards (111) for Film.com (1,892) on 12 Apr 2008

The Counterfeiters, written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a morally challenging twist on the long and honorable tradition of forgery movies…

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By Larry Ratliff (323) for San Antonio Express-News (323) on 10 Apr 2008

This rarely happens, but I can't find a single negative thing to say about this intriguing, beautifully mounted slice of cinema…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 10 Apr 2008

[It] manages the difficult task of illuminating the size of the Nazis' horror while still focusing on a few men in the middle of it…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 09 Apr 2008

Much of Counterfeiters is actually pretty thrilling, as Sorowitsch, a classic taciturn anti-hero in the Humphrey Bogart or William Holden mold,…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 09 Apr 2008

The real 'trick' or feat that's successfully performed by The Counterfeiters is making us care about a character who, on the surface at least,…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 28 Mar 2008

The Counterfeiters is in its own smart, trim fashion The Bridge on the River Kwai of concentration-camp sagas…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Mar 2008

It survives its melodramatic excesses because of the inherent fascination of its subject and an outstanding lead performance…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 21 Mar 2008

Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky creates an atmosphere devoid of color or light, in which the desperate need to survive is balanced against…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 14 Mar 2008

It is always intriguing as it follows the arrest and captivity of Salomon Sorowitsch (the terrific Karl Markovics), one of Germany's leading…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 14 Mar 2008

Deft and fascinating handling of a moral quandary in a Nazi concentration camp…

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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 13 Mar 2008

Ruzowitzky likes to pose questions and clarify the contradictions around them, but he doesn't pretend to have the answers…

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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 07 Mar 2008

Turns out to be just as challenging and effective a political drama as Persepolis and 4 Months…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 07 Mar 2008

A gripping, unusual and suitably harrowing -- if, in the final analysis, not particularly satisfying -- concentration camp drama…

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By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 06 Mar 2008

The film does shed light an another facet of Nazi history, and it does it with an attention to the complexity of human nature that makes it…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 05 Mar 2008

The worst you could say is that it's memorably diverting, but as worsts go, that's a pretty damning indictment of a Holocaust movie…

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By Jeanne Aufmuth (581) for Palo Alto Weekly (965) on 04 Mar 2008

Plays the concentration camp drama to dynamic effect…

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