Life During Wartime Review

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4.5

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  4.0

  69

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  A heady mix of deadpan humor that boldly uses such topics as pedophilia, race and terrorism to plead the need for forgiveness at a personal and national level.

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• 80

  out of 100

  Wall Street Journal John Anderson

  The common problem of Solondz's characters is an inability to see the world in shades of grey, which is fitting in a film where color-garish, boring or just plain ugly-is so important, and the actors are working off palettes of such extreme emotions. A few of them-notably Ms. Rampling, Mr. Hinds and Ms. Sheedy-are as good here as they've ever been.

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