Metacritic reviews

This handsome film is a splendid, stirring feat of the imagination.

A few genuinely tense scenes are not enough to overcome a thin script, weak direction and an unceasingly high-strung score.

We get director John Daly's feel-good tedium and a waste of a performance by the magnificent Landau.

Set mostly over the course of a single evening, the film is lugubriously paced and filled with improbable turns of events.

Picture's dubious brand of heroism, half-baked historical sense, simplistic dialogue, flat staging and barely formed characters make for sluggish sledding.

The problem, as it is so often in well-intentioned movies of this kind, is that rather than illuminate the enormity of Nazism, The Aryan Couple trades upon our knowledge of it for emotional impact.

An oafish bore.

Definitely third-rate Holocaust material.

No "Schindler's List," to put it mildly.

Feel-good historical fiction, The Aryan Couple insultingly seeks to soothe and comfort against the reality of atrocity.