75
San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham
Audiences will talk about how satisfying this movie is.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
88
Philadelphia Inquirer by Desmond Ryan
The film treats the ensuing issues of conscience and compromise with subtlety and warmth.
80
Divided We Fall briskly, often hilariously, forbids us to wallow in the specious comfort of untainted local heroes or irredeemable villains.
60
In its compassionate absurdism and underlying dark humor, the movie seeks to reestablish contact with the Czech new wave.
88
The film's triumph - and it is a triumph - in the end rests on the ability of Hrebejk and his actors to convince us that they never stop being normal people.
70
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Bears no resemblance to the smarmy fraud that Roberto Benigni perpetrated in "Life Is Beautiful."
90
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Not only is the film that good, it's also that wonderfully, inescapably Czech.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The tonal elegance of this black comedy set in a dark time -- is boldly dependent on performances that tug at taut lines of moral complexity.
67
Austin Chronicle by Marrit Ingman
This a deeply humane and affecting movie, surprisingly gentle in spite of its black-comic tinge, and without the slightest hint of schmaltz.
80
The result is a lovely movie, one that allows its characters unexpected spurts of growth and regression, darkness and grace.