Just for starters, no movie about the Dutch Resistance during World War II has any right to be this wildly entertaining, not to mention this provocative and potently erotic.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
A hard-core war film with raw violence, intense action, graphic sexuality and a twisting plot that offers a series of surprises.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Black Book takes the conventions of the WWII epic -- the prison breaks, the interrogation scenes -- and undermines them with craft and muscle and the ripe lack of restraint we've come to expect from this director.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Black Book possesses a taut, exciting script that throws surprises at the viewer on a regular basis.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Black Book, which takes its title from a secret list of Dutch collaborators, is an impressively old-fashioned yet fashionably embittered movie.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
As epic as its two-hours-and-25-minute running time indicates, Black Book is as subversive as it is traditional, both enamored of conventional notions of heroism and frankly contemptuous of them.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Black Book doesn't let the grim facts of the Holocaust get in the way of some ripping pulp.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
It's a messy, colorful big-screen entertainment that veers from sober period piece to outrageous melodrama, which is to say it's a Verhoeven movie.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Black Book may be the looniest use of the Holocaust as a playground since Roberto Benigni served up his infernal clown act in "Life Is Beautiful."Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Black Book works only if you take it for the pulpiest of fiction, not a historical gloss, its stated claims to "true events" notwithstanding.Read Full Review »
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