The Counterfeiters (2008) Critic Reviews
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Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, The Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics, an Austrian TV actor with a pugnacious anvil of a head, is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor.Read the full review
Some movies rest on an actor's face, and The Counterfeiters has a great one.Read the full review
Well made, provocative and compelling.Read the full review
From an historical perspective, the story is interesting because it shows a different side of the war than what we're used to observing in motion pictures.Read the full review
The Counterfeiters is a swift and suspenseful thriller, and perhaps a little too entertaining for its own good.Read the full review
The Counterfeiters demonstrates that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, there are always new and unexpected ones waiting to be revealed.Read the full review
Though swiftly paced, The Counterfeiters convincingly examines the complex nature of humanity under inhuman conditionsRead the full review
The moral quandary of Nazi complicity is revisited in taut drama The Counterfeiters, which tells the true story of a disparate group of imprisoned artists, financiers and swindlers secretly assembled in a concentration camp to forge millions of pound and dollar notes to support the German war effort.Read the full review
The Counterfeiters is inevitably serious, even austere, and full of chilling, ironic details.Read the full review
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 full review
