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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe movie gathers momentum with a steady, assured pace, accumulating incidents, characters, secrets and lies until the rush of events is absolutely transfixing. Cinema can sometimes rival the novel in compulsive intensity and Sarah's Key is one such example.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Holocaust scenes are wrenching, the past-meets-present dialectics less so.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfWhen Sarah's Key leans into the horror (as it should), it's harrowing. Alas, that's only half the time.
- 60MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeThough the picture is lovingly and often quite strikingly shot and styled, there are too many dangling and swiftly clipped threads for the film to amount to more than another tasteful Sunday matinee set against one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
- 40Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonDutifully follows the template of scores of movies about the Shoah: wringing from atrocity the most unseemly sentimentality.
- 38Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSarah's Key becomes a musing ("meditation" would be too generous) on the importance of uncovering the past that fails to honestly contemplate why such an act is significant.