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Counterfeiters, The (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars Counterfeiters, The (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Overall Rating:3.2247
Avg Critic Score:3.2312

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Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.30 out of 4 stars for One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek) One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
It survives its melodramatic excesses because of the inherent fascination of its subject and an outstanding lead performance. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for BBC (Catherine Chambers) BBC (Catherine Chambers)
Fight for what you believe in and face certain death – or co-operate with the enemy to save your own skin? Such is the dilemma at the heart of Stefan Ruzowitzky's compelling WWII drama about concentration camp Jews who are spared the gas chamber - in ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at BBC (Catherine Chambers)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs) PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
The film establishes a complex, compressed moral universe, in which choices are severely limited. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Empire (Dan Jolin) Empire (Dan Jolin)
A sharp and compelling war drama that delivers on the promise of its astonishing true-life origins. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Empire (Dan Jolin)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for London Times (Wendy Ide) London Times (Wendy Ide)
This is a first-rate piece of film-making that should appeal to fans of last year’s The Lives of Others. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at London Times (Wendy Ide)

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Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for ViewLondon (Matthew Turner) ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
In short, The Counterfeiters is an impressively directed drama with a superb central performance from Markovics and a gripping story to tell. Highly recommended. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Daily Telegraph (Tim Robey) Daily Telegraph (Tim Robey)
A very thoughtful and imaginative effort. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Daily Telegraph (Tim Robey)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson) Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)
There are many levels of drama and comedy that keep this film moving. The extraordinary brutality emphasizes the honesty of the film, but detracts from the dark comedy just below the surface. Each extreme acts as a check and balance on the other, to ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Sky Movies (Tim Evans) Sky Movies (Tim Evans)
Sensibly, this never takes sides…and it proves a chilling reminder of the dilemmas faced by those placed in an impossible situation. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Sky Movies (Tim Evans)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Total Film (Philip Kemp) Total Film (Philip Kemp)
The Counterfeiters is anchored in Markovics’ central turn as a chilly egotist forced, for the first time, to consider others’ needs. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Total Film (Philip Kemp)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Total Film (Philip Kemp) Total Film (Philip Kemp)
The Counterfeiters is anchored in Markovics’ central turn as a chilly egotist forced, for the first time, to consider others’ needs. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Total Film (Philip Kemp)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for HollywoodChicago.com (Adam Fendelman) HollywoodChicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Curt wit and intermittent humor allow dialogue to be one of the strongest features of this drama and each actor delivers lines with a truth rarely seen in cinema. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at HollywoodChicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire) Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
The fresh perspective and challenging moral questions make for a historical drama with vital relevance to contemporary audiences. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Arizona Republic (Kerry Lengel) Arizona Republic (Kerry Lengel)
The film does shed light an another facet of Nazi history, and it does it with an attention to the complexity of human nature that makes it worthy of its Oscar win. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Arizona Republic (Kerry Lengel)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane) Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
...[puts] a human face on the Holocaust... ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Movie Insider (Mark Dujsik) Movie Insider (Mark Dujsik)
This is a gripping account of psychological turmoil that's also intellectually challenging. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Movie Insider (Mark Dujsik)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for PopMatters (Bill Gibron) PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
Indeed, what's clear about The Counterfeiters is that it is intended to be a Holocaust film where the archetypal facets associated with the era...are reduced to a filmic footnote. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Independent (Anthony Quinn) Independent (Anthony Quinn)
This parable of fakery and compromise asks the most difficult question: how much would you be willing to sacrifice in the interest of your own survival? And how grateful do you feel that you will probably never have to answer it? ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Independent (Anthony Quinn)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan) Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Demonstrates that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, there are always new and unexpected ones waiting to be revealed. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty) Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
Director Stefan Rukowitzky keeps his camera -- wisely -- inside the forgers' separate barracks. They, and we, can only guess at what is going on in the rest of the camp. But it haunts them still. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Post (Kyle Smith) New York Post (Kyle Smith)
Full of the weird details that, though unsurprising on one level, are so jarringly wrong that they seem fresh. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at New York Post (Kyle Smith)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp) Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
[Director] Ruzowitzky refreshingly keeps the movie free from any pat answers, letting the audience members imagine what course of action they might take in similar circumstances. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Newsday (Gene Seymour) Newsday (Gene Seymour)
[Director] Ruzowitzky wisely knows he doesn't have to be overly emphatic in orchestrating the tension of both the moral conundrum and the always uncertain fate of the inmates. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Newsday (Gene Seymour)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Variety (Eddie Cockrell) Variety (Eddie Cockrell)
The moral quandary of Nazi complicity is revisited in taut drama The Counterfeiters. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Variety (Eddie Cockrell)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey) Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
A conventional mixture of thriller and moral drama, the film is unsettling in both intentional and unintentional ways. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox) TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Austrian writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky includes a lot of the peculiar challenges faced by the men of Operation Bernhard. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (David Wiegand) San Francisco Chronicle (David Wiegand)
The moral conundrum at the heart of Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters is worthy of Kafka or Dostoevsky. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (David Wiegand)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky creates an atmosphere devoid of color or light, in which the desperate need to survive is balanced against the guilt and shame for doing so. But it is the performances that are the most effective. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for This is London (Derek Malcolm) This is London (Derek Malcolm)
The Counterfeiters is a story that had to be told, and German director Stefan Ruzowitzky tells it plainly but well. It's the substantially true tale of Saloman Sorowitsch, the counterfeiter arrested by the Germans as a career criminal and a Jew, ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at This is London (Derek Malcolm)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner) Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Just when you thought Nazi concentration camp stories were exhausted, comes another one with an entirely unique slant. A story of survival by a group of printing craftsmen is just that, a story of high risk and equally high principles in which life and ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert) Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
There are no simplistic morality lessons or tidy resolutions in The Counterfeiters, but it asks provocative questions. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt) Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
Deft and fascinating handling of a moral quandary in a Nazi concentration camp. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli) ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Despite a title that makes it sound like a heist movie, The Counterfeiters is actually a World War II tale. It is not, however, a traditional war film. Instead, it takes a hard look at one of the most controversial and ethically dubious activities of the ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford) Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
The Counterfeiters  moves slowly in the first half but improves markedly in the second. The latter is the meat of the film and is what makes it worthy of its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. There are several foreign language films that, ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Miami Herald (Connie Ogle) Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
It's impossible not to respond to The Counterfeiters and the haunting questions it raises. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.90 out of 4 stars for EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider) EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
It does peer deeper into the complicated moral quandaries experienced by Hitler's victims than most films on this topic do. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.90 out of 4 stars for Oregonian (Stan Hall) Oregonian (Stan Hall)
The story has moments of great humanity and terrible brutality but comes off as a strange hybrid of espionage caper and concentration-camp movie. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Oregonian (Stan Hall)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner) Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
A psychological prison drama in line with Midnight Express, but the Holocaust is front and center in the viewer's mind, as well as the film's ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Film-Forward.com (Kent Turner)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Channel 4 Film (Demetrios Matheou) Channel 4 Film (Demetrios Matheou)
An absorbing new perspective on the moral, physical and emotional adversity faced in the concentration camps, with one of the most unusual anti-heroes, of any genre, of recent years. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Channel 4 Film (Demetrios Matheou)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton) Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
The worst you could say is that it's memorably diverting, but as worsts go, that's a pretty damning indictment of a Holocaust movie. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for New York Times (A.O. Scott) New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Like most films about the Holocaust, The Counterfeiters, a brisk, tough movie from the Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a survivor’s tale. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein) Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
Ruzowitzky likes to pose questions and clarify the contradictions around them, but he doesn't pretend to have the answers. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Onion AV Club (Tasha Robinson) Onion AV Club (Tasha Robinson)
[Star Karl] Markovics largely rescues the film with his mesmerizingly layered, steady performance as a man who solves the problem of compromise by refusing to admit that he's compromising. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Onion AV Club (Tasha Robinson)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas) ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
There are many interesting things to admire about this film's look at the art of counterfeiting being done in concentration camps and Karl Markovics' performance is top-notch, but when it comes down to it, there's little else about this film that ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
Austrian director-writer Stefan Ruzowitzky does an extraordinary job of setting up this central moral dilemma: of making the situation both credible and not nearly as ethically cut and dry as it might sound. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin) filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters opens on a beach in Monte Carlo where Salomon Sorowitsch (the great Karl Markovics) is sitting in a nice suit and a briefcase. Ten minutes later, Salomon walks into the swankest hotel in the gambling paradise and ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Jim Emerson) Chicago Sun-Times (Jim Emerson)
The trouble is that the storytelling and filmmaking are routine (surely faux-documentary handheld camerawork is the most overused cliche in modern movies), even when the human drama is not. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Jim Emerson)
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