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Everything Is Illuminated

2005

Liev Schreiber

Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Zuzana Hodkova ...

7.0

8,615

Drama A young Jewish American (Wood) endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during WWII in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The gift that Schreiber brings to the material is his ability to move us from the broad satire of the early scenes to the solemnity of the final ones (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Damon Wise Empire	"A creditable, and credible, adaptation of a book that many considered unfilmable (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"This movie is sloppy and disjointed - an unsatisfying melodrama built upon a shaky foundation of contrivances, coincidences, and plot holes"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"Though not as far-reaching as the book from which it was adapted, Everything Is Illuminated is a movie with wit, warmth and unabashed emotion (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Taken on its own, without comparison with its literary source, the movie, Mr. Schreiber's first as writer and director, is thin and soft, whimsical when it should be darkly funny and poignant when it should be devastating."
		Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"Schreiber capably adds writer-director to his impressive resume with this winning take on the Jonathan Safran Foer novel."
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"'Everything Is Illuminated' achieves the impossible — it's even more annoying than Jonathan Safran Foer's gratingly precocious novel"
		John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"Not everything is illuminated in his (Liev Schreiber) version, but the book's humanity and humor shine through."

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