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Black Book

Zwartboek (Black Book)

2006

Paul Verhoeven

Carice van Houten, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Sebastian Koch ...

7.0

18,435

War. Drama. Thriller Zwartboek centres on Rachel (Carice Van Houten), a Jewish singer in the Netherlands who becomes part of the Dutch resistance at the end of WWII. When her cover is blown and the war ends, she is accused of having been a double spy. Despite the end of the war, Rachel is determined to find out who tried to set her up.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"No movie about the Dutch Resistance during World War II has any right to be this wildly entertaining, not to mention this provocative and potently erotic (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[It] encompasses the best and very worst of its director’s signature pulp brutalism, which means it’s pretty much a hoot."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It might have been brilliant with a little more flair and dramatic bite. Instead, it is crass, vulgar and flatulent (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"A technically slick, mainstream production that toys around in subtle ways with the genre in which it moves."	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"All that keeps the movie from collapsing into soap opera is the exuberant drive of the filmmaking"	NEU
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"A rollicking wartime 'movie'-movie, replacing awards-bait clichés with a strong dose of two-fisted action, frank sexuality, and coal-black cynicism"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"'Black Book' possesses a taut, exciting script that throws surprises at the viewer on a regular basis (...) This is one of the best war movies to emerge about World War II in the last ten years (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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