Rotten
Although it's updated to World War II and alludes to the Holocaust, this golden-hued remembrance is about as horrific as "Hogan's Heroes."
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
War of the Buttons
The French Resistance came in all shapes and sizes.
2011 · 1h 40m · PG-13
Adventure, Family
Directed by
Christophe Barratier
Overview
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Barratier can't seem to do anything with it other than keep raising the violence and anger.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Rotten
The two threads aren't really woven together into the sort of tight, overarching theme that the film seems built to convey.
Tom Russo, Boston Globe
Fresh
Though it's handled with little subtlety, the way the atmosphere of suspicion in Vichy France filters down to the kids is a smart slant on the material.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Seeing the French Resistance through the eyes of little kids yields a cutesy, simplistic and sentimental would-be fable in "War of the Buttons."
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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