Fugitive Pieces Critic Reviews

If Fugitive Pieces has a message, it is that life can heal us, if we allow it.Read the full review

Fugitive Pieces has a sharp, devastating story to tell.Read the full review

A subtly rich performance by Dillane and a fine supporting cast make this Holocaust drama worth seeing, even if you don't think you can bear another one.Read the full review

Hopscotching time on film is never easy, but Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa handles it with skill and care in Fugitive Pieces, his lovely, absorbing adaptation of Anne Michaels' lauded novel about a circumspect writer haunted by his traumatic past.Read the full review

For a tale spiked with so much torment, Fugitive Pieces feels remarkably soothing.Read the full review

In many ways, Fugitive Pieces is a beautiful film. But it's a bit TOO beautiful.Read the full review

The movie does offer intriguing, perceptive glimpses of the everyday difficulties of being both a survivor and the child of a survivor.Read the full review

The cool hand of Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa proves a disappointing match for Fugitive Pieces, a generally dull and unmemorable adaptation of Anne Michaels' extraordinary prose-poetry novel.Read the full review

Everyone in the movie, from Dillane to (especially) Serbedzija down to the child actor Robbie Kay (as young Beer), is fabulous, and Podeswa has an ability to distill history into a few powerful images. The movie, however, is circular in structure and keeps reiterating points it has already made. For some, it will be a long sit.Read the full review