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By Blake Crane (142) for Film Racket (579) on 29 Mar 2017

Moments of visual expressiveness, striking as they are, become swallowed up in choppy note-hitting for the characters…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 29 Mar 2017

Its 14A rating in Ontario means it could function as an introduction to the Holocaust for more mature children, without completely scarring…

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By Brad Keefe (343) for Columbus Alive (355) on 29 Mar 2017

Chastain embraces the lead in an anchoring performance, and Brühl gives a sinister performance that hearkens to his famous turn as a Nazi…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for Buffalo News (278) on 29 Mar 2017

While The Zookeeper's Wife never lands an emotional knockout punch, there's a decency in the actions of Antonina Żabińska and Jan Żabiński…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 29 Mar 2017

One silver lining to the current political situation is that at least in a few years we'll have some new stories to tell about fighting Nazis…

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By Matt Goldberg (248) for Collider (1,032) on 29 Mar 2017

It always feels like it's keeping the Holocaust at arm's length, not because it's trying to cover up those horrors, but because it wants to…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 29 Mar 2017

It's an inspiring tale [but] frankly, the Zabinskis, and those they helped, deserve a better cinematic memorial than this…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 29 Mar 2017

An engrossing if somewhat glossy drama based on a real-life heroine…

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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 29 Mar 2017

Intense, violent true story about courage in WWII…

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By Mike Reyes (98) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 29 Mar 2017

It's not that The Zookeeper's Wife is a bad film, so much as it's a wasted opportunity…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 29 Mar 2017

Niki Caro's gorgeous drama favors intimacy over grand moments and gracefully honors life in all forms…

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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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