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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor

    Modest, wise ensemble piece. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | David Stratton

    A gentle, sad and at times funny film in the best French tradition of high-quality cinema. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    These are people who are just waking up to life again. It may appear to be the ultimate non-action ­movie, but in the context of these lives, it is the highest kind of ­drama. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Unlike any other film I have seen about the Holocaust. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    It's a quiet film, shunning melodrama and political polemic. Instead, it opts for a human touch, conveying how a group of very different survivors come to terms with the past and plan a future in their own unique ways. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    There's something rather lovely about the mood and intentions of Michel Deville's French movie. Read full review

  • 70
    New York Magazine | Peter Rainer

    The film was adapted from a 1993 novel by Robert Bober, who drew on his own childhood experiences, and as it unwinds, one begins to appreciate Deville's desire to see things work out well for these people. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Succeeds as a delicately moving memory piece about a subject not often put on film: the process of moving on into ordinary life after surviving the Holocaust. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    It takes talent to make audiences care about ordinary people doing ordinary things, just as it takes guts to end a movie with something as corny as the sounds of children playing. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    Too many of these characters behave like they just stepped out of a Noel Coward production. Read full review

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