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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 4.00 out of 4 stars for Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore) Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
This dark, absorbing thriller is not just a moral exercise in the awful choices faced by those determined to survive history's worst genocide. It invites us to imagine ourselves in the shoes of a not-quite-lovable rogue. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten) Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
[Director Ruzowitzky] moves The Counterfeiters along at a fast clip that covers a lot of ground in an hour and a half. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for San Antonio Express-News (Larry Ratliff) San Antonio Express-News (Larry Ratliff)
This rarely happens, but I can't find a single negative thing to say about this intriguing, beautifully mounted slice of cinema. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at San Antonio Express-News (Larry Ratliff)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Daily Mirror [UK] () Daily Mirror [UK] ()
An awesomely powerful movie exploring not just the day-to-day hell of life in a death camp, but also the moral quandary of helping the Third Reich win the war. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Daily Mirror [UK] ()
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Observer (Andrew Sarris) New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
It is a must-see, especially in this dreary movie season. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)

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Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Press (Raphaela Weissman) New York Press (Raphaela Weissman)
[Director] Ruzowitzky’s straightforward approach to this unusual story and cinematographer Benedict Neunfels’s documentary-style immediacy transcend the now well-worn Holocaust genre, bringing another side of the tragedy into unflinching focus. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at New York Press (Raphaela Weissman)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer) Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
The moral dilemmas posed by this operation are dramatically rendered, and without once resorting to cant. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Gerald's Reviews (Gerald Wright) Gerald's Reviews (Gerald Wright)
The Counterfeiters is a biopic based on the accounts of concentration camp prisoners in the book The Devil's Workshop by Adolf Berger. Salomon Sorowitsch is a skilled and master forger who, during WWII, is captured and interned in a concentration camp in ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Gerald's Reviews (Gerald Wright)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow) Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
A work of entertainment that's also an honest-to-God work of art. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Adam Bernstein) Washington Post (Adam Bernstein)
Based on a real-life Nazi operation, the film is a tense drama with performances that elevate the movie to the front rank of films set in concentration camps. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Washington Post (Adam Bernstein)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten) Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Some critics and regular audience members alike have questioned the multiplicity of Holocaust films. “Isn’t it time the studios put a moratorium on the subject?” Or, “Haven’t we beaten this dead horse enough?” Granted: the Holocaust is not a p ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum) Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten) Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Though similar to Schindler's List, this riveting Holocaust drama, also based on a true story, features actors who throw themselves wholly into the violence of a brutal concentration camp as they practice a trade that could keep them alive. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Jam! Movies (Liz Braun) Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
The honesty with which the film looks at the inmates' differing choices is really killing. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke) Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Ruzowitzky's film is certainly a worthy one -- and an entertaining, intelligent one -- anchored to one of the most mesmerizing performances I've seen in a while. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
... an honest effort to sound painful human depths. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline) Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Far more than another Holocaust drama; it's an examination of complex moral shadows that make us capable of cowardice and courage at the same time. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means) Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
[It] manages the difficult task of illuminating the size of the Nazis' horror while still focusing on a few men in the middle of it. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson) Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
The black and white blueprints of movies like Schindler's List have been tossed out, replaced with one that bleeds gray. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (Rob Thomas) Capital Times (Madison, WI) (Rob Thomas)
Much of "Counterfeiters" is actually pretty thrilling, as Sorowitsch, a classic taciturn anti-hero in the Humphrey Bogart or William Holden mold, struggles with whether to go along with the Nazi plan or figure out some way of undoing it from within. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Capital Times (Madison, WI) (Rob Thomas)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice) Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
The real 'trick' or feat that's successfully performed by The Counterfeiters is making us care about a character who, on the surface at least, isn't particularly likable or sympathetic. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey) ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
A new twist on the historic Nazi concentration camp movie, "The Counterfeiters" is about a group of Jewish prisoners hand-picked by the Nazis for their specific skills to create and print millions of counterfeit British pound notes. Salomon Sorowitsch ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Film Journal International (Doris Toumarkine) Film Journal International (Doris Toumarkine)
Ruzowitzky honors all the talent with his strong, beautifully structured and eloquent script. Upscale audiences will embrace the fine results. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Film Journal International (Doris Toumarkine)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Seattle Times (John Hartl) Seattle Times (John Hartl)
Turns out to be just as challenging and effective a political drama as Persepolis and 4 Months. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Seattle Times (John Hartl)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr) Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
slick, exciting, emotionally trenchant - well done all around. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)) St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
It's an absorbing, humane winner. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth) Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Plays the concentration camp drama to dynamic effect. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Toronto Star (Peter Howell) Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
A drama based on true historical events that leaves no conscience unchallenged. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips) Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
It is a mark of the filmmaking and storytelling intelligence of The Counterfeiters that Ruzowitzky neither pours on the melodrama nor plays coy with the reality of things. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli) Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
Is this the last word on the Holocaust? No. But nothing is. And nothing ever should be. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito) Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
The fascinating, unsentimental true story of a group of concentration camp prisoners forced to help the Nazis perpetrate the largest counterfeiting operation in history. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for KPBS.org (Beth Accomando) KPBS.org (Beth Accomando)
Making a film about the Holocaust but using a very specific and personal story is what makes The Counterfeiters stand out. It's the specifics of Sorowitsch's story that rivet us. ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at KPBS.org (Beth Accomando)
Counterfeiters, The (2008) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Time Out (Dave Calhoun) Time Out (Dave Calhoun)
The idea of ‘surviving’ the Holocaust takes on many nuances in Stefan Ruzowitzky’s stark and intriguing evocation of a largely unknown area of Second World War German history: the use of skilled prisoners to create counterfeit currency for Operation ...read the complete Counterfeiters movie review at Time Out (Dave Calhoun)
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