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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDespite a somewhat unpolished look and a few slips into cliche, the film makes up in sincerity what it lacks in sophistication.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt is crucial when viewing All My Loved Ones, with its fine ensemble cast and well-evoked sense of time and place, to remember that it unfolds as a recollection of David, a boy of perhaps 10 in 1938.
- 60Village VoiceLeslie CamhiVillage VoiceLeslie CamhiIt traces a sustained and moving portrait of the worldly Sam, whose despair as the society he embraced abandons him is both clear-eyed and devastating.
- 50The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsA situation of such inherent drama only suffers from the director's attempts to intensify it, and eventually, the scenes of professional and personal rejection begin to suffer from an overabundance of pathos.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThe 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.
- 40VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerClearly inspired by, though not in the same dramatic league as, "Schindler's List," pic is marred by uneven perfs and lacks the intensity.
- 38New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan Lehmann"Schindler's List" it ain't, and the whole is rendered occasionally surreal by Janusz Stoklosa's laughably heavy-handed score.