88 Premiere | The perfect antidote to the post-holiday blues. It's exciting, well-acted, touching, and genuine. Read full review
75 Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey Here, Jews are not victims of genocide, but victors in the organized resistance against it. Read full review
67 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman Zwick offers excitingly staged moments, but once you get past the novelty of WWII Jews acting this heroically macho, Defiance bogs down in a not very well-developed script. Read full review
63 Rolling Stone | Peter Travers For all the film's flaws, this is a war story told with passion about a band of brothers that still has the power to inspire. Read full review