Film Threat by Tiffany Tchobanian

Ashes in the Snow is a good, yet unsatisfying movie with the potential to have been so much better. The pace is too slow, and the characters’ arcs are predictable.

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Farber

The film is heartfelt and often powerful, but sometimes too sluggish to carry maximum impact.

Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray

Director Marius A. Markevicius and screenwriter Ben York Jones fail to find much of a fresh angle on genocide and widespread cruelty.

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

There are a few powerful images.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

Powley, a delight in “”Diary of a Teenage Girl” and “A Royal Night Out,” can be applauded for trying something darker, but the checkbox script and pedestrian direction Marius A. Markevicius, who produced Peter Weir’s escape from Siberia thriller “The Way Back,” let her down.

RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny

The depictions of degradation and sadism are arguably accurate, yes. But they’re executed in a context that’s almost entirely free of meaningfully specific historical detail, to the extent that one comes to suspect this movie of commodifying human suffering.

Observer by Rex Reed

Filmmakers never seem to run out of footnotes to history during World War II. This one is better served in the pages of a novel. It doesn’t work on film.