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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
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 1/5 |
The most mawkish and shallow take on the holocaust committed to screen in many a long year. Full Review |
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2/5 |
A case study in why Holocaust movies are so difficult to get right. Full Review |
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1/5 |
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 |
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1/5 |
Its intentions are doubtless good, but it ends up exploiting the Holocaust for cheap suspense. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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 |
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1.5/4 |
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 |
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 3/5 |
Despite some tense scenes, this movie still falls fairly flat. Full Review |
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1/5 |
The worst Holocaust movie ever. Full Review |
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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 |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2/4 |
A handsome Holocaust melodrama hobbled by a transparent and cartoonish script. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Pure sentimental melodrama, with not a moment's reflection on any issue larger than the fate of our heroes. Full Review |
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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 |
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Potentially powerful subject matter is given an unconvincingly melodramatic treatment. Full Review |
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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 |
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It turns real genocide into another kind of B-movie moustache-twirling. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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 |
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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 |
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