80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
This handsome film is a splendid, stirring feat of the imagination.
The Aryan Couple
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 2004
- · 120m
Director
John Daly
Cast
Martin Landau,
Judy Parfitt,
Kenny Doughty,
Nolan Hemmings,
Danny Webb,
Christopher Fulford
Genre
Drama,
War
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
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50
L.A. Weekly
We get director John Daly's feel-good tedium and a waste of a performance by the magnificent Landau.
50
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
A few genuinely tense scenes are not enough to overcome a thin script, weak direction and an unceasingly high-strung score.
40
Variety
Picture's dubious brand of heroism, half-baked historical sense, simplistic dialogue, flat staging and barely formed characters make for sluggish sledding.
40
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
Set mostly over the course of a single evening, the film is lugubriously paced and filled with improbable turns of events.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Definitely third-rate Holocaust material.
30
The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
An oafish bore.
30
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
The problem, as it is so often in well-intentioned movies of this kind, is that rather than illuminate the enormity of Nazism, The Aryan Couple trades upon our knowledge of it for emotional impact.
25
New York Post by Lou Lumenick
No "Schindler's List," to put it mildly.
20
Village Voice
Feel-good historical fiction, The Aryan Couple insultingly seeks to soothe and comfort against the reality of atrocity.
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