Go Gripping Swedish family drama unfolds around the time of WWII by pedsarq This is a different kind of WW II movie that focuses on family life in the Swedish countryside around the time of the war. It's a movie about forbidden love and the love a parent shows to children...
Go A Most Unusual Family Drama. by Alon Patterson Just when you think you've seen every possible formula for the "family angst" film genre, along comes something new. Thought provoking isn't the way one would usually describe a film of this subject...
Must Go! "Simon and the Oaks" by Let's Talk Off-Broadway This is a terrific movie that I think hasn't been well understood. It's a rich family saga with REAL characters, iit takes up important ideas, it's beautifully acted and directed, and completely...
90 The New York Times | With its exhilarating World War II narrative and performances that touch notes intimate and grand, Simon and the Oaks has an exquisite, and epic, ache. Read full review
88 Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan Simon and the Oaks is not merely the story of two boys from opposite sides of the tracks. It's also a larger meditation on life's hardships and what endures: love, art and civilization. Read full review
88 Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert It is unabashedly sentimental and epic, and rather bold in the way it takes place during and after the Holocaust but is not defined by it. Read full review
75 Slant Magazine | Diego Costa The film is at its best when it lingers on intimacy and the characters' incompetency to manage it. Read full review