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By Robert Horton (590) for HeraldNet (Everett, WA) (288) on 30 Mar 2017

Chastain does something admirable here: She doesn't play Antonina as some kind of ahead-of-her-time superhero, but as an unassuming woman whose…

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By Stephen Schaefer (147) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 30 Mar 2017

As a personal tale of ordinary people taking extraordinary, life-threatening measures to help strangers, The Zookeeper's Wife astounds…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 30 Mar 2017

It's held together by the fierce-as-always Jessica Chastain, who - burrowing deep into a slight Slavic acccent - brings Antontina to trembling,…

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By Bill Newcott (157) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 30 Mar 2017

A well-told story of a time in history when the true wild animals were on the wrong side of the bars…

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By Christian Toto (897) for HollywoodInToto.com (350) on 30 Mar 2017

Jessica Chastain's 'For Your Consideration' close-ups are the worst reason to see The Zookeeper's Wife…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 30 Mar 2017

This is a handsomely shot, weighty story, and Chastain is a knockout in the lead…

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By Steve Crum (868) for Video-Reviewmaster.com (514) on 30 Mar 2017

Emotionally wrenching in many ways, 'The Zookeeper's Wife' succeeds as a fact-based a story of love and perseverance…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 30 Mar 2017

It tells a valuable story in a way that mostly recalls other, more vital versions of stories from the same endlessly dramatized historical period…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Mar 2017

The Zookeeper’s Wife achieves its grandeur, not through the depiction of grand movements, but through its attentiveness to the shifts and…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 29 Mar 2017

Caro (“Whale Rider”) largely forgoes the eardrum-shattering ballistics of a typical war movie — yes, there are bombings and shootings,…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Mar 2017

The film's flaws in pacing and suspense are easily overlooked in the shadow of Chastain's moving performance, as well as the performances of…

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By Joe Dziemianowicz (76) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 29 Mar 2017

Antonina is often seen and cradling animals — a lion, a monkey, a rabbit…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Mar 2017

An emotional experience that is straight-ahead but satisfying…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Mar 2017

What makes the film worthwhile, despite its flaws, are those scenes of human and animal desperation that encapsulate the horrors of war…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 29 Mar 2017

Little more than an old-fashioned melodrama, but for some moviegoers that will be enough…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 Mar 2017

And there you have the problem with The Zookeeper’s Wife: Dialogue and plotting that keep this inspirational, mostly true story earthbound…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Mar 2017

It’s a good movie about great heroism, and you wish it was more…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Mar 2017

As her oddly unengaged zoologist husband, the Belgian actor Johan Heldenbergh appears to be working in a different movie altogether…

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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Mar 2017

It’s a story that promises major suspense, which only materializes occasionally…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 29 Mar 2017

In a production based on a nonfiction book by Diane Ackerman, a brilliantly specific story has been reduced to conventional drama and synthetic…

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