Generation War
Music Box Films | Release Date: January 15, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
NPRElla TaylorJan 16, 2014
Generation War holds the line admirably in showing how totalitarianism corrupts almost everything in its path, individual responsibility included, and creates an appalling space where sadists and conformists alike can flourish and break every rule of war at will. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 13, 2014
The films are highly entertaining and highly disturbing, in the latter case for both the right and the wrong reasons. While admirably delineating moral decay, which eats away at one character like a virus, the movies never really get at the seed of evil. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsJan 23, 2014
Director Philipp Kadelbach crafts a war drama cued to the ethics of the characters. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranFeb 27, 2014
With performers this engaging, we never want to stop watching, even as events go from grim to grimmer over four long and bitter years. Read full review
60
VarietyRob NelsonJan 16, 2014
Overly melodramatic but fairly engrossing. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJan 16, 2014
It plays like a conventional melodrama with better-than-average production values. Read full review
60
The DissolveNoel MurrayJan 16, 2014
Generation War never becomes great, but it overcomes its stiff start in large part due to its scope. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianMarc MohanJan 23, 2014
While it's an effective memoriam for the well-meaning Germans whose lives were ruined by Hitler's mad dream, the refusal of Generation War to focus on any other sort of German makes it both dramatically and historically suspect. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid DenbyJan 27, 2014
While re-creating the vast swing of German forces in and out of Russia, Kadelbach tries to capture the inner turmoil of two men. Call it half a victory. Read full review
50
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeJan 17, 2014
The densely plotted Generation War sweeps past implausibilities and offers the can’t-put-it-down qualities of a superior airport novel; its last third is affecting. But a bold confrontation with the past? Not so much. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 16, 2014
As television drama, Generation War is unquestionably effective. As dramatized history, it is pretty questionable. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneJan 16, 2014
The perverse thrill of seeing less-than-popular considerations of Nazism on screen fades hurriedly to the old ache of seeing any kind of questions about Nazism answered noxiously. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergJan 16, 2014
By conveniently exempting its protagonists from ideology or culpability, Generation War feels less like a reckoning than a dodge: Yes, your grandparents may have been Nazis—but they could have been these nice people, too. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichelle OrangeJan 16, 2014
Generation War seeks the epic, creating multiple, lavishly realized worlds and moving with confidence between them. What it finds of both history and its individuals is less complete. Read full review
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