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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 29 Mar 2017

There are some wonderfully surreal scenes of wild animals running free in the streets, an excellent visual metaphor for the absurdity and randomness…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Mar 2017

True to form, Caro seems unbound by her audience’s expectations of a WWII picture; she delivers a singular, thrilling portrait, filled with…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 28 Mar 2017

It’s a remarkable story, told in a movie that doesn’t always quite live up to it; except for a few crucial scenes, The Zookeeper’s Wife…

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By Esther Zuckerman (46) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Mar 2017

The Holocaust drama The Zookeeper’s Wife is handsomely made, well-acted, and lacking in much nuance…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Mar 2017

Even at its most engaging (those cubs!), Zookeeper can’t help evoking the dozens of films that have told these stories before, and better…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 28 Mar 2017

As Antonina, though, Chastain seems bound up as an actress, held back in creating a character mainly by the demands of doing a Polish accent…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 28 Mar 2017

Ms…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 28 Mar 2017

The Zookeeper's Wife holds the distinction of being one of the few Holocaust movies seen almost entirely from a female perspective, which may…

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By Chance Solem-Pfeifer (41) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Mar 2017

Frankly, it's the kind of movie that if it were any good would have been released in November as quintessential awards bait…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 28 Mar 2017

The Zookeeper's Wife is deeply emotional and visceral, but fails to reach the bar set by better examples of the genre…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Mar 2017

The movie is so dutiful and tactful that it sometimes feels mechanical, constrained by its story rather than inspired by it…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 28 Mar 2017

Both a lush historical tale and a real-life fable, The Zookeeper's Wife is an account of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation that makes a strong…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 28 Mar 2017

It's a worthy film that fails in revealing any depth to its protagonists, remembering them for their courageousness and little more…

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By Yip Wai Yee (59) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 28 Mar 2017

The too-easy treatment of the story is a huge pity because this is an important and extraordinary story that deserves to be told…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 28 Mar 2017

Look past the sepia and the dreary title, The Zookeeper's Wife is riveting both inspiring and comes as a welcome reminder in this time of uncertainty…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 28 Mar 2017

The Zookeeper's Wife undersells a story of Warsaw torment in favor Chastain's - albeit more than formidable - performance…

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By Dwight Brown (181) for National Newspaper Publishers Association (180) on 27 Mar 2017

Niki Caro orchestrates the proceedings with a very sensitive eye that never wavers…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Mar 2017

The film imbues a pessimistic view of the seemingly bottomless depths of human cruelty with sorrowful tragic force…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 24 Mar 2017

Nazis, Animals , and a superb performance from Jessica Chastain make this a memorable and different WWII-set film…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 23 Mar 2017

The Zookeeper's Wife may have appeal to history buffs of that turbulent time but the story has a more universal appeal about love and compassion…

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