La rafle 2010

Tom Long, Detroit News: Writer-director Rose Bosch is working in unabashed historical epic mode here, balancing individual stories with grand-scale awfulness effectively. She never swerves for cheap sentiment, she just lays it all out. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A big, sorrowful, dramatically trite period epic about a bleak chapter in the history of modern France. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: A well-meaning but inexpertly dramatized account of the roundup of 13,000 Parisian Jews in the summer of 1942. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Bosch does an impressive job of pulling together the stories she and her assistants found while researching the script. Read more

Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Director Rose Bosch's intentions seem genuine, but her dramatizations frequently undermine the horrific real-life events on which they're based. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: The utter hopelessness experienced by European Jewry is never hinted at, and in its way this betrays the Holocaust story. Read more

Joel Arnold, NPR: It's a mainstream, sentimental drama because it needs to be. It announces in a clear voice that this happened. Read more

Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: It is a paint-by-numbers Holocaust movie, scrupulously balanced, always cautious, occasionally cliched, often sentimental. Read more

Andrew Schenker, Time Out: The movie succeeds in generating only mild outrage, tempered by impeccable tastefulness and the safe distance of time. Read more

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: This is the second film by the writer-director Rose Bosch, and we very soon sense her surety, her confidence in her ingenuity, which gives virtually every shot the feeling that it has been made the best way possible. Read more

Jordan Mintzer, Variety: Turning one of the darkest moments in modern French history into syrupy historical drama, writer-director Rose Bosch's The Round Up is a polished, pathos-driven re-creation of the Vichy regime's mass imprisonment and disposal of 13,000 Parisian Jews. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Treading on a shameful piece of French history, Bosch bizarrely intercuts scenes of Hitler, Himmler, and Hess working out the logistics of the exportations, in vignettes that smack of Inglourious Basterds farce ... Read more