A compelling story is clumsily told in debut director Mark Schmidt's à clef account of the wartime heroics of Pinchas Rosenbaum.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2021

A daunting amount of better made films recounting the period flounces the necessity of Schmidt's picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Walking with the Enemy is an intense and stirring war film that reveals several heroes heretofore unknown to most of us, and this is a good thing.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2017

An unheralded tale of true-life World War II heroism is given standard melodramatic treatment in this earnest epic.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2014

...perhaps a little overreaching in that it strains for epicness.

Full Review | Original Score: 85/100 | Jun 6, 2014

Walking With the Enemy is one of those cinematic conundrums critics face: encountering a should-be-told story in a should-be-avoided movie.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 10, 2014

"Walking with the Enemy" works best for us history nuts who can get by the film's clichs.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 29, 2014

Cliches, subpar acting undercut effect of Holocaust drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 29, 2014

Great production value & based on a true story

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2014

Like "Defiance" (2008), which dramatized the resistance efforts led by the Bielski brothers, this is that rare Holocaust drama about Jews fighting back.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2014

It is faithful enough to history to bring alive horrible memories to those among the few lucky survivors who were children at the time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2014

An unfussy but robust World War II drama inspired by the factual story of a small-town Hungarian rabbi's son who used wile, guile and occasionally brute force to disrupt Nazi occupation and save countless Jewish friends and families.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Apr 28, 2014

An old-school drama so sincere, yet so ham-fisted, it borders on parody.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2014

A little-known tale of Jewish resistance during the final days of WWII gets tackled with appreciable ambition and blunt, sporadic emotional force in "Walking With the Enemy."

Full Review | Apr 27, 2014

Stirring but heavy-handed depiction of W.W. II heroism in Hungary.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 26, 2014

Sometimes awkward and melodramatic, the debut film from director Mark Schmidt nevertheless derives strength from its little-known true-life story of Holocaust heroism.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2014

Intriguing, though cinematically prosaic and factually loose.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 25, 2014

The film is as dramatically inert as its origins are inspirational.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 25, 2014

Directed with big budget panache by Mark Schmidt, Walking with the Enemy does justice to a tale that demands to be told

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2014

A badly written, poorly acted, bathetic pageant of bad wigs and worse accents, rendered with production values on a par with NBC's recent Sound of Music mummery.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2014