Pure sentimental melodrama, with not a moment's reflection on any issue larger than the fate of our heroes.
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11/17/05
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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]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 3, 2004 Limited
Starring: Gretchen Becker, Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty
Director: John Daly
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Reviews for The Aryan Couple
Top CriticIt turns real genocide into another kind of B-movie moustache-twirling.
12/09/04
A case study in why Holocaust movies are so difficult to get right.
10/17/06
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.
10/06/06
Is over-arching sincerity only results in a stiffness that gives way to B-movie melodramatics in time for the cliché-ridden finale.
10/13/06
The most mawkish and shallow take on the holocaust committed to screen in many a long year.
06/13/08
Despite some tense scenes, this movie still falls fairly flat.
05/09/06
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.
10/14/06
Potentially powerful subject matter is given an unconvincingly melodramatic treatment.
12/18/04
Its intentions are doubtless good, but it ends up exploiting the Holocaust for cheap suspense.
10/14/06
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.
12/09/04
These two are so pretty and vacant they seem better suited to modeling for a perfume ad than taking on the Third Reich.
11/17/05
Engrossing and satisfying, The Aryan Couple shows just how vital a movie made in the solid British style of traditional filmmaking can be.
12/09/04
Top CriticA few genuinely tense scenes are not enough to overcome a thin script, weak direction and an unceasingly high-strung score.
12/03/04
A hokey soap opera set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
12/06/04
Top CriticA minor example of a major genre: the feel-good Holocaust movie.
12/02/04
Top CriticDaly ladles on the overwrought music and the moist close-ups, throwing in everything but Climb Every Mountain in a bid for our emotions.
12/02/04
Top CriticThe worst Holocaust movie ever.
04/14/06
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.
04/13/06
A handsome Holocaust melodrama hobbled by a transparent and cartoonish script.
11/18/05
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