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The Aryan Couple (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 26

Fresh: 3

Rotten:23

Average Rating: 3.6/10

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence, disturbing images and thematic elements

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 3, 2004 Limited

Starring: Gretchen Becker, Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty

Starring: Gretchen Becker, Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty

Director: John Daly

Director: John Daly

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The most mawkish and shallow take on the holocaust committed to screen in many a long year.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
06/13/08
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

A case study in why Holocaust movies are so difficult to get right.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
10/17/06
David Mattin
BBC

It's a sucrose period piece that somehow averts its gaze from the brutal reality of Nazi genocide, and manages to conjure a fatuous feelgood happy ending.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
10/14/06
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

Its intentions are doubtless good, but it ends up exploiting the Holocaust for cheap suspense.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
10/14/06
Robert Hanks
Independent

Is over-arching sincerity only results in a stiffness that gives way to B-movie melodramatics in time for the cliché-ridden finale.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
10/13/06
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine

Mainly notable for its inappropriate, blithe sentimentality. In another film this would be the usual Hollywood hokum. In a film about the most serious subject imaginable, it amounts to moral idiocy.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
10/06/06
Michael Hardy
Boston Globe
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Despite some tense scenes, this movie still falls fairly flat.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
05/09/06
Doug Brunell
Film Threat

The worst Holocaust movie ever.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
04/14/06
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Put-upon Jews weep on cue or stare defiantly into the camera, spouting impromptu speeches about getting some of their own back one day; all the while, violins wail in the background.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
04/13/06
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

The Aryan Couple gets great mileage out of its tension and suspense, and its commitment to developing its characters as real people in an unthinkable dilemma.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
02/23/06
Dan Hudak
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

he story loses its grip and momentum during the laboriously realized denouement, which follows the hired help's struggle to escape to Switzerland amid overwrought action sequences propelled by a shrieking violin-driven soundtrack.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Time Out

The whole thing is coarse and vulgar, as it hides its low fascinations behind a scrim of Holocaust piety until it becomes pure kitsch.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
11/18/05
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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A handsome Holocaust melodrama hobbled by a transparent and cartoonish script.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
11/18/05
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Pure sentimental melodrama, with not a moment's reflection on any issue larger than the fate of our heroes.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
11/17/05
Richard Nilsen
Arizona Republic
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These two are so pretty and vacant they seem better suited to modeling for a perfume ad than taking on the Third Reich.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
11/17/05
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly

Potentially powerful subject matter is given an unconvincingly melodramatic treatment.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
12/18/04
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Pic's dubious brand of heroism, half-baked historical sense, simplistic dialogue, flat staging and barely formed characters make for sluggish sledding.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
12/09/04
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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It turns real genocide into another kind of B-movie moustache-twirling.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
12/09/04
Noel Murray
AV Club

Engrossing and satisfying, The Aryan Couple shows just how vital a movie made in the solid British style of traditional filmmaking can be.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/09/04
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Directed with the flat artlessness of a lower-rung Masterpiece Theater entry, pulling heartstrings with Igor Khoroshev’s lugubrious score and scripted with banal bromides insulting to its subject matter.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
12/09/04
Kim Morgan
L.A. Weekly
 
 
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