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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Polanski, himself a survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, has created a near-masterpiece. Read full review
A beautiful story, told in measured cadences by a master of old-timey narrative compression and expression. Read full review
One of the great Holocaust films. Read full review
The result is a movie, and Cannes Palme d'Or winner, of riveting power and sadness, a great match of film and filmmaker -- and star, too. Read full review
Polanski, who was a Jewish child in Krakow when the Germans arrived in September 1939, presents Szpilman's story with bleak, acid humor and with a ruthless objectivity that encompasses both cynicism and compassion. Read full review
Never before has a fiction film so clearly and to such devastating effect laid out the calculation of the Nazi machinery of death and its irrationality. Read full review
Nothing can detract from the film as a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake. Read full review
With this 2002 Cannes Film Festival best-picture winner, Polanski skips the quirky flourishes and simply brings history to life. Read full review
The closing scenes of the movie involve Szpilman's confrontation with a German captain named Wilm Hosenfeld -- Polanski's direction of this scene, his use of pause and nuance, is masterful. Read full review
Surprisingly lacks a feeling of personal urgency and insight that would have made it a distinctive, even unique contribution to the considerable number of films that deal with the war in general and Holocaust in particular. Read full review