All My Loved Ones (2000)

Critic Reviews

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  A tone of rueful compassion ... reverberates throughout this film, whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events.

• Megan Turner, New York Post

  Schindler's List it ain't.

• Dave Kehr, New York Times

  As banal as the telling may be -- and at times, All My Loved Ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention.

• Richard James Havis, Hollywood Reporter

  Sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments.

• Leslie Camhi, Village Voice

  It offers a glimpse of the Solomonic decision facing Jewish parents in those turbulent times: to save their children and yet to lose them.

• Donald J. Levit, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

  Vastly moving.

• Laura Kelly, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  It's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter, but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible.

• Bridget Byrne, Boxoffice Magazine

  There's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling, which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title.

• Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly

  The movie is loaded with good intentions, but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the Holocaust escape story, Minac drains his movie of all individuality.

• Niki Patton, Martha's Vineyard Times (Massachusetts)

  Jirí Hubac's script is a gem. His characters are engaging, intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving. The scope of the Silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives, full of strength, warmth and vitality..

• Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  The film is so packed with subplots involving the various Silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a TV series than a feature film.

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