The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is considered to be one of the most accurate yet painful movies based on the worst period of humanity in the last century, the Holocaust. It is inspired by John Boyne’s ...

To borrow a line from an Indy colleague, the first thing I thought at the start of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was, “Uh-oh, this is another Nazi movie.” However, the film’s unique perspective ...

With “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” writer-director Mark Herman attempts to do on film what John Boyne did on the printed page in his 2006 novel: Confront the horror of the Holocaust in a story ...

Moviegoers can be forgiven for feeling a little Holocaust fatigue. There have been so many films about the subject, or using it as a backdrop, that there’s no shame in feeling a bit numb to it all.

Jack Scanlon, left, and Asa Butterfield strike up an unlikely friendship in 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.' Built upon a tragic but gimmicky end -- and an immensely powerful one, despite the ...

At one point in John Boyne’s new novel “All The Broken Places,” a 91-year-old German woman recalls, for the first time, her encounter with a young Jewish boy in the Auschwitz death camp 80 years prior ...

Of all the stories to be told of the Holocaust, "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas," at Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, offers a new one. The story of a friendship between the son of a Nazi and a ...

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During World War II, a Nazi officer (David Thewlis) receives a promotion and moves his wife (Vera Farmiga), teenage daughter (Amber Beattie), and eight-year-old son Bruno (Asa Butterfield) to a remote ...

The opening credits are flashed against a billowing red background. It's a rich red, aesthetically pleasing, and then the camera pulls back, and we see that we've been looking all this time at a Nazi ...

There are plenty of subjects — old yellow hunting dogs, spirited folk bravely facing cancer — that can be easily milked for maximum pathos. But you’ve reached rock bottom when you start milking the ...