Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, The Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics, an Austrian TV actor with a pugnacious anvil of a head, is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Quiet, watchful, out for himself, Sorowitsch is a complicated figure - neither hero nor villain, and certainly no fool. The Austrian actor Markovics is riveting in the role; he is wiry, anticipatory, his eyes darting with intelligence and worry.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Some movies rest on an actor's face, and The Counterfeiters has a great one.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
From an historical perspective, the story is interesting because it shows a different side of the war than what we're used to observing in motion pictures.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Adam Bernstein
Though swiftly paced, The Counterfeiters convincingly examines the complex nature of humanity under inhuman conditionsRead Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
The Counterfeiters demonstrates that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, there are always new and unexpected ones waiting to be revealed.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
The Counterfeiters is a swift and suspenseful thriller, and perhaps a little too entertaining for its own good.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ella Taylor
At its best--and queasiest--The Counterfeiters asks disturbing questions more commonly found in the survivor literature of Primo Levi or Bruno Bettelheim than at the movies.Read Full Review »
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