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Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineSentimentality may make the movie's agony more digestible, but its darkness resists any glossing over of what isn't only France's, but Europe's painful legacy.
- 63Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrA big, sorrowful, dramatically trite period epic about a bleak chapter in the history of modern France.
- 60VarietyJordan MintzerVarietyJordan MintzerTurning 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 in summer 1942.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt's a straightforward, heartfelt drama, well acted and well produced.
- It is a paint-by-numbers Holocaust movie, scrupulously balanced, always cautious, occasionally clichéd, often sentimental.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA well-meaning but inexpertly dramatized account of the roundup of 13,000 Parisian Jews in the summer of 1942.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterA bankable cast, a hint of controversy and high production values may play in their favor commercially, but Bosch and her producer-husband Ilan Goldman have come dangerously close to making a feel-good movie about the Holocaust.
- 40Time OutTime OutThe movie succeeds in generating only mild outrage, tempered by impeccable tastefulness and the safe distance of time.
- 40Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonTreading 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, but otherwise, she's got a steady grip on the tear-jerking, if that's your awards-season cocktail.