It’s a smart and respectful story whose only fault is that it tries to do too much.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Ultimately about the role of history in our lives and whether or not it must determine our future.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

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| Nov 16, 2019

Young Mayance is riveting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Is Sarah's Key designed to make French adults think about what their grandparents did in the war?... But if that's so, then why make a movie with the emotional intelligence of a child?

| Aug 9, 2018

An emotionally wrenching story of survival and remembrance of things past.

| Aug 30, 2017

The crumbs of happiness the filmmakers find to soothe us with are that learning Sarah's story helps Julia come to terms with her own problems, a neat resolution that trivializes the story the filmmakers mean to illuminate.

| Mar 21, 2016

Isn't it a little early in the year for Harvey Weinstein to be grubbing for Oscars already?

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Well executed and avoids histrionic manipulation, allowing just enough breathing room without truncating the raw emotion of the book.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 2, 2014

Never quite finds the right balance between the grave consequences of its period scenes and the relative small beans of the present-day ones.

| Original Score: C | Jun 23, 2013

Thomas carries the weight of the movie, and her usual sangfroid works against her; when she finally makes contact with the deported couple's grandson, the story crumples into sentimentality

| Dec 13, 2011

The emphasis on the writer's relatively trivial if symbolic domestic woes (she experiences a 'miracle' pregnancy in the midst of her research into death) detracts from the power of the wartime scenes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 28, 2011

Makes a powerful impact thanks to the vividness and urgency of its historical scenes.

| Nov 28, 2011

I'm delighted to see that the Weinstein Company is re-releasing one of the year's most overlooked films, Sarah's Key, the moving adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay's international best-seller. It's one of the year's best films.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2011

A very good film that ought to have been a great film, but greatness ultimately proves beyond its grasp -- if only just.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 23, 2011

Teary-eyed absorbing Holocaust story.

| Original Score: B | Sep 23, 2011

Loses some force in its latter half but the key story remains gripping. Unlocks 70-year-old horrors so the present can't shut the door on past complicities and crimes.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2011

Sarah's Key a poignant tribute to perseverance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 15, 2011

It's a harrowing story of a young girl trying to survive the extermination of everyone she knows. It's also a story of an upper-middle class woman dealing with an unhappy marriage. You just can't give these two things equal weight in a movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 6, 2011

The performances by Kristin Scott Thomas and especially Melusine Mayance (as the young Sarah) are key to the picture's success.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2011