An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
The Devil's Arithmetic has generally received positive reviews.
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The Devil's Arithmetic was released in 1999 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 98 reviews, giving The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 74%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Devil's Arithmetic a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 69%, The Devil's Arithmetic is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1999, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1999 with similar scores include films like Eyes Wide Shut, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Life.
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