A sturdy enough but ultimately overpolite entry into the classic wartime women's melodrama, in which war's impact on the lonely heart is nearly as devastating as the havoc wreaked on limb and landscape.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 3, 2015

What could be all-too-familiar here is mostly fresh and engaging, thanks to understated storytelling and a great cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 2, 2015

As doomed wartime romances go, the film doesn't offer anything particularly original. But with palpable tension and poignancy, Suite Francaise is fine filmmaking well worth watching.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 2, 2015

In Nazi-occupied France, the bucolic yet class-riven life of the small town of Bussy is turned upside down by the arrival of refugees from Paris and jackbooted soldiers from Berlin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2015

How are you with the old parleyvoo? Not so hot? Suite Franaise, the latest movie about France under the Occupation, neither.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2015

It's one of those pedigreed visions of love and war which backs away from specifics, reassuring us almost to death with its lavish craft. It's thoroughly easy to sit through, when it should probably have been harder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2015

Sterling performances lift the occasionally soapy storyline in this semi-successful adaptation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2015

To describe the central romance as Mills and Boon cheapens that imprint's worth. Every second World War clich is here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2015

Everyone involved has been better elsewhere.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2015

Like a very solemn Stella Artois commercial, this is a golden-tinted saga of everyday French collaborating folk in the second world war.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2015

When Hollywood adapts great literature into a movie, it is best not to expect too much, and merely feel thankful that anything has been salvaged. But the treatment that has befallen Suite Franaise seems particularly harsh.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2015

Suite Franaise is handsomely made and boasts two exceptional central performances but its tone is strangely discordant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2015

Ultimately, it undoes all such work by rounding off all the storylines in a highly clichd and simplistic way.

| Mar 12, 2015

Iffy scripting decisions can't thwart the romantic allure of this handsomely crafted, sincerely performed wartime weeper.

| Mar 10, 2015

This nuanced, compelling film offers a close-up portrait of a northern French village forced to host a garrison of Nazi soldiers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2015