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

  • 88
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    Feels like an old-fashioned movie in the way it deals with bold sacrifices made in the name of love, while its setting and chary view of the era's political machinations mark it as distinctly modern. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Wargnier's sumptuous, moving new film, captures both the hope of the returning Russians and their brutal betrayal. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Takes the most somber of predicaments, and makes it involving, romantic and ultimately intensely suspenseful. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    The two-hour film never feels a minute too long. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie as a whole lacks the conviction of a real story. It is more like a lush morality play, too leisurely in its storytelling, too sure of its morality. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    Isn't always easy to sit through, but it repays patience. It's an honorable film, and it earns its undertow of poignancy derived from. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Too often caught between trying to be a sweeping period drama and intimate love story at the same time, with a script that's never fully satisfying on either count. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Wargnier directs his French historical drama, a foreign film Oscar nominee, in a way that allows little perspective on the extent of Stalinist cruelty; even when terrible things happen, they do so sedately. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Bob Graham

    It is well-made in an old-fashioned way, and its straight-arrow lack of cynicism may be old- fashioned as well. Read full review

  • 40
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Director Regis Warginer ("Indochine") lets his film degenerate into a turgid melodrama. Read full review

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