Usually I’m partial to the “less is more” approach to storytelling, but the details surrounding Heydrich and his assassination are worthy of further exploration. A three or four-part cable mini-series would do the trick.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 11, 2024

Even the romantic subplots, which might appear a gratuitous distraction, are less about passion than desperation; when there's no escape plan in place, life is lived in moments.

| Oct 28, 2023

“Anthropoid” is refreshingly earnest and subtle. It has confidence in the compelling strength of its story and feels no need to embellish it or the characters.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Anthropoid is pulse-pounding action and I wish 2016 had more movies like this.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2021

I think it is a good film. A tough watch but a moving story and well done

| Aug 13, 2020

Although I was really interested in the subject, this film did fall a little flat for me. I think it will be hard to remember much about it within a few days. Unfortunately, this is not the film the real-life counterparts deserve.

| Jul 1, 2020

It's a strange structure for a thriller, but it mostly works.

| Mar 31, 2020

'Anthropoid' doubles as a WWII thriller and an important Czech history lesson .

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 21, 2019

The film is gripping and at times crackles with tension.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2019

Anthropoid is a solid and generally effective thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

I didn't care for the decision for British and Irish actors such as Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan and Toby Jones to use cod-Czech accents but the power of the story and the real-life bravery of those involved is compelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2017

Anthropoid does not re-write history. All does not end well. That's the best aspect of this tolerable film.

| Aug 28, 2017

There are some twists and turns in this grim wartime tale both before and after the assassination plot is finally carried out. The acting is solid, as are the production values of this well-constructed film.

| Original Score: B | Jan 19, 2017

In its final half-hour, it soars.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2016

Ellis has a real flair for action -- the assassination scene is heart-stopping -- but patchy accents, strange pacing and an overstretched budget nearly scupper proceedings. Shame, because there are moments of chilling beauty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2016

A film that relies on a competent cast, but suffers from a rather simplistic look at the murderous ferocity of the Nazis and paints its soldiers as a large bunch of incompetent robots. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 20, 2016

Sometimes the tone chosen to tell a story can end up collapsing. And here is added the director's lack of talent. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 20, 2016

It's utterly compelling, tense and exciting -- all in equal measure.

| Dec 14, 2016

A war thriller that will interest the lovers of the genre without having a prodigy in it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2016

Anthropoid forces you, even if only for a brief moment, to remember those who survived, yet lost everything and everyone around them.

| Dec 8, 2016