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It's as retrograde - if also as perversely intoxicating - as an old Hollywood melodrama. Mar 13, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's as retrograde - if also as perversely intoxicating - as an old Hollywood melodrama.
Michael O'Sullivan
Though director Philipp Kadelbach and screenwriter Stefan Kolditz do touch on moral ambiguities ... they settle comfortably into glib ironies, bittersweet platitudes, and sentiment passing as tragedy. Mar 6, 2014 | Full Review…
Though director Philipp Kadelbach and screenwriter Stefan Kolditz do touch on moral ambiguities ... they settle comfortably into glib ironies, bittersweet platitudes, and sentiment passing as tragedy.
Peter Keough
"Generation War" has a texture and an interest that American stories do not. Feb 27, 2014 | Full Review…
"Generation War" has a texture and an interest that American stories do not.
Kenneth Turan
Certainly entertaining, possibly art, not always convincing but most assuredly a soap. Feb 13, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Certainly entertaining, possibly art, not always convincing but most assuredly a soap.
John Anderson
In all, "Generation War" has the strengths and weaknesses of middlebrow art-it may be clunky, even embarrassing, but it's certainly never dull. Feb 3, 2014 | Full Review…
In all, "Generation War" has the strengths and weaknesses of middlebrow art-it may be clunky, even embarrassing, but it's certainly never dull.
David Denby
I suppose everything that occurs in "Generation War" is factually possible, even when it's not based on fact. But weirdly little of it feels historically plausible, at least to one foreigner's eyes and ears. Jan 23, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4
I suppose everything that occurs in "Generation War" is factually possible, even when it's not based on fact. But weirdly little of it feels historically plausible, at least to one foreigner's eyes and ears.
Michael Phillips
While Generation War is propulsive and determined to stay juicy (there's plenty of shooting and schtupping) it offers some surprising restraint when it comes to telling you how exactly to feel. Sep 26, 2017 | Full Review…
While Generation War is propulsive and determined to stay juicy (there's plenty of shooting and schtupping) it offers some surprising restraint when it comes to telling you how exactly to feel.
Jordan Hoffman
Suffice it to say that this is an extraordinarily moving story told from the universal perspective of "war is hell" even when it is the enemy telling the story. Sep 15, 2017 | Full Review…
Suffice it to say that this is an extraordinarily moving story told from the universal perspective of "war is hell" even when it is the enemy telling the story.
Neely Swanson
Apart from the bizarre coincidences (how often can five friends cross paths on a battlefield stretching all the way from Poland to the northeast of the Ukraine?), Generation War has other typical marks of TV melodrama. Aug 21, 2017 | Full Review…
Apart from the bizarre coincidences (how often can five friends cross paths on a battlefield stretching all the way from Poland to the northeast of the Ukraine?), Generation War has other typical marks of TV melodrama.
Ian Buruma
A 4 1/2-hour German take on WWII May 15, 2014 | Full Review…
A 4 1/2-hour German take on WWII
Robert Denerstein
It's an involving story and an intriguing view of history. Mar 14, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4
It's an involving story and an intriguing view of history.
Chris Hewitt
Think of the ambitious 'Generation War' as a German-language 'Friends' in which the five close pals encounter rape, death squads and the brutality of war while constantly fending off lethal bands of mad Russians at the dawn of World War II. Mar 7, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Think of the ambitious 'Generation War' as a German-language 'Friends' in which the five close pals encounter rape, death squads and the brutality of war while constantly fending off lethal bands of mad Russians at the dawn of World War II.
Al Alexander
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