In its final half-hour, it soars.

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

Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan and Toby Jones star in the Second World War-set Anthropoid.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2016

This smart, grown-up drama is one of those films that seems happier to start a conversation, rather than having the last word.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2016

Ellis, who shot the film as well as directed it, has an acute eye for the ominous beauty of this occupied city and captures both the jagged terror of combat and its crushing, deathly boredom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2016

Grueling but well-made.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2016

An intelligent, tough, and gripping movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2016

A film that does every justice to the bravery of two men who undoubtedly altered the course of the Second World War.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2016

A satisfying thriller with some solid performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2016

A compelling and moving interpretation of a largely forgotten moment in European history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2016

Though Anthropoid lacks narrative ambition, the film justifies its reason for being thanks to a devastating final half-hour.

| Original Score: B | Aug 12, 2016

Anthropoid reduces a riveting and resonant piece of WW2 history to moral muddle and monotonous filmmaking. Talk about an opportunity missed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2016

A lot of the time the experience of the movie is like looking at a very long wobbly rectangle, and the frequently abrupt cutting doesn't help.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2016

While it's easy to sneer at the romantic subplot, it serves to humanize the characters and convey their intense fear. Otherwise we know too little about them - beyond the fact they are all impossibly good-looking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2016

A post-script details the aftermath of the movie's action, which seems to underscore the point that war is hell. To that point, so is "Anthropoid."

| Original Score: C | Aug 12, 2016

It takes Sean Ellis's World War II thriller "Anthropoid" a while to build steam, but once it does, hang on.

| Aug 11, 2016

The story ... feels leaden and burdened by a false ending.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 11, 2016

Enlightening but seldom riveting ...

| Aug 11, 2016

This is a story of heroes, and the second half in particular shows why.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 11, 2016

An hour of plodding preparations does lead to guerrilla action, then to a long shootout in a church, but by then anyone watching will have realized that "Anthropoid" is the code name for a snore.

| Aug 11, 2016

This beautifully photographed but slow-moving thriller dramatizes the events of Operation Anthropoid, the British military mission in which members of the Czech resistance were recruited to assassinate high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

| Aug 11, 2016