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The Exception

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United Kingdom, United States · 2017
Rated R · 1h 47m
Director David Leveaux
Starring Lily James, Jai Courtney, Eddie Marsan, Christopher Plummer
Genre Drama, War

A German soldier investigates if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II. However, his investigation takes an unexpected turn after he falls for a young Jewish-Dutch woman working in the house.

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The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The Exception is a diverting and occasionally exciting film, though it is rarely disturbing or thought-provoking in ways the material might require.

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TheWrap by Dave White

Whatever nuance existed in the original novel, whatever detail regarding the complicated emotional existence of actual human beings, is reduced here to not-quite-suspenseful-enough plot points and an impossible forbidden romance that makes almost no sense.

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Paste Magazine by Jacob Oller

The film never quite achieves the level of fevered hurry for which it aims—sometimes due to its often trite, on-the-nose dialogue and sometimes to the stilted delivery of said dialogue.

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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

"Exception" breaks no new ground but it is a solidly done and always engrossing piece of alternate history, mixing real people and events with fictional ones.

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