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Waiting for Anya

2020

Ben Cookson

Noah Schnapp, Anjelica Huston, Jean Reno, Sadie Frost ...

5.2

37

Drama During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"The lighting and camerawork are flat, the acting largely perfunctory, the dialogue entirely leaden, the score unresponsive, the poor Pyrénées as dreary as they’ve ever looked (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite its laudable intentions, Waiting for Anya proves less impactful than it should be. (...) Cookson proves unable to wrest much sustained tension from the scenario"	NEU
United States	Kimber Myers Los Angeles Times	"[It] is the type of cheesy drama you’d watch in school if your district didn’t have the budget for a better film’s licensing fee"	NEG
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Debates persist about the appropriate ways to depict World War II onscreen, but “stodgily familiar,” which describes “Waiting for Anya,” is probably not the most historically sensitive mode.	NEG
United States	Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"Despite the obvious sincerity of the filmmakers, the best efforts of Jean Reno and Anjelica Huston, and some lovely scenery, it remains overly didactic (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"Budget limitations, tonal inconsistencies and several creaky supporting performances are just some of the elements that scupper this worthy if ultimately inept Michael Morpurgo adaptation (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"The film is gorgeous to look at, all alpine meadow flowers and glorious green mountains. But the drama loses momentum pretty early on (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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