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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Caine bounces back and forth almost randomly between pitiable and detestable, following the dictates of a formulaic plot. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Intelligent and thought-provoking, but as drama, it fails to live up to its own high expectations. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Raises such important issues -- guilt, conscience, the memory of the Holocaust -- that, along with Jewison's skill and Caine's power, they carry the movie. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: In the first ten or fifteen I thought, this is going to be like Hitchcockian thriller. I can't wait to see where this is going to go. But, then it just went all over the place. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: [A] tasteless hunt-the-war-criminal thriller. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Never working up anywhere near the tension or the interest it thinks it has, The Statement is pedestrian almost from beginning to end. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: An inert sociopolitical thriller mired in moralizing. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Caine's performance makes it a striking portrait of a man of faith's profound hypocrisy. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: If any actor could reveal the squirmy soul of a war criminal, it's Caine, so it feels like a cheat when The Statement gives him nothing to portray but self-condemnation. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: A high-minded but structurally shaky thriller. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: This classy cast ... surely deserves better by way of character development, and almost all seem to compensate with wild overacting. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Seems more an excuse to attack a target than an exercise in solid storytelling. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: A surprisingly mild thriller, one that meanders and spasms dramatically, and that, despite its occasional outburst of violence, wastes a cast of ordinarily superb actors. Read more
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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Despite all its chest-beating about issues of collaboration and justice, The Statement is just the same old story about aging Nazis and government coverups. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: With only a few exceptions -- and these exceptions do scream out for the mercy of the cutting-room floor -- Jewison directs with a quiet, authoritative hand, and delivers a suspenseful little movie with historical roots. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: It's bad enough that the performers, a largely British cast of well-known actors, are pretending to be French -- but on top of that, they're speaking English. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: As much as these wonderful actors invest their performances with psychological nuance, their efforts go mostly for naught in a movie that gives character development a distant back seat to the grinding mechanics of its formulaic plot. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: This is a creaky, obsolete sort of film, not an instant classic, but an instant antique. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Michael Caine is brilliant as a French Nazi collaborator hidden by the Catholic Church. Too bad Norman Jewison's film is a stiff, limping bore. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Somewhere in this disappointing political thriller was a superb character study trying to get out. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The Statement never comes together as a persuasive whole. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The Statement never generates any sustained sense of outrage or urgency. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: Material that might have made for an intriguing morality play is rendered as a by-the-numbers and fatally overlong pursuit thriller. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Ends up second-guessing its own high-minded strivings, not trustful enough of its audience to be sophisticated about history and ethics, and not pulpy enough to keep us awake. Read more