Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is 8 years old in 1940s Berlin when his daddy (David Thewlis) moves Mama (Vera Farmiga) and the kids closer to work. Small detail: Dad is a Nazi officer who runs a concentration camp. Gaping at a strange nearby ''farm,'' the inquisitive lad befriends a boy on the other side of the barbed wire who is much like Bruno — except, you know, Jewish and slated for extinction. As a Holocaust-for-kids fable, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an appalling, jaw-dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares. D–
This is the entire review. Of course, Entertainment Weekly is still a circulating magazine and they only have so much room for reviews... but when they come this small, there really shouldn't be much room to mess up. Right?
If you scroll down a bit on the page, you'll find this credit information that Lisa apparently wasn't aware of when she wrote about this "Holocaust-for-kids fable":
Two inches of magazine space, ruined!
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Entertainment Weekly film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film a "B+" and said "This is psychological as well as stylistic familiar territory for Anderson after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. But there's a startling new maturity in Darjeeling, a compassion for the larger world that busts the confines of the filmmaker's miniaturist instincts."
I found this on the Wikipedia article for The Darjeeling Limited. My god this woman needs to be stopped.
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