When Liesel’s on-the-run Communist mother can ... That being said, “The Book Thief” has its pleasures. Along with a memorable performance from Nélisse, Rush and Watson prove their ...

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Illiterate orphan Liesel Meminger arrives at her new foster ... suspense and a life lesson or two. “The Book Thief” is a muted, sentimental exploration of life and death through the eyes ...

The narrative device, carried over from Markus Zusak’s popular novel, quickly wears out its welcome in the movie: Yes, the Grim Reaper had his hands full during Nazi Germany, but do we really ...

Words are life, Liesel, after all ... heartbreaking and beautiful all at the same time. Overall, The Book Thief film manages to capture the heartache and humour of the Zusak novel but loses ...

Liesel is a spirited and precocious girl who ... a film with a similar message that was far more convincing. The Book Thief is a sleek production that is often treacly and strangely dull ...

Liesel's brother dies on the way to Molching, near Munich, and she is left on her own. She, of course, is the book thief of the title, and the books she steals from the cemetery where her brother ...

Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) and her foster father Hans (Geoffrey Rush) share a quiet moment in The Book Thief Geoffrey Rush (from left), Sophie Nelisse, Brian Percival and Markus Zusak stopped in ...

Set in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, “The Book Thief” centers around Liesel Meminger. Liesel finds her first book partially buried in the snow near her brother’s grave site. With “The Gr ...

Watching "The Book Thief," it was hard to get memories of the ... narrated by the Grim Reaper himself - begins as little Liesel is brought to the countryside, to live with her new adoptive parents.