Bitter Harvest

Unfortunately, “Bitter Harvest” can’t even claim the virtues of a superior dramatic feature.

2871d ago

The film is an awkward mix of swashbuckling love story and polemic, painted in very broad strokes.

2871d ago

The film is an awkward mix of swashbuckling love story and polemic, painted in very broad strokes.

2871d ago

The film is an awkward mix of swashbuckling love story and polemic, painted in very broad strokes.

2871d ago

Unfortunately, “Bitter Harvest” can’t even claim the virtues of a superior dramatic feature.

2871d ago

Unfortunately, “Bitter Harvest” can’t even claim the virtues of a superior dramatic feature.

2871d ago

Despite honourable intentions, this film addressing the Stalin-inflicted 1932-33 genocide in Ukraine is at times embarrassingly bad.

2871d ago

A subject like the Holodomor demands something more than a TV-movie aesthetic and pitched battle scenes featuring a couple dozen combatants.

2871d ago

A subject like the Holodomor demands something more than a TV-movie aesthetic and pitched battle scenes featuring a couple dozen combatants.

2871d ago

Bitter Harvest feels awkward and parochial.

2871d ago

Despite honourable intentions, this film addressing the Stalin-inflicted 1932-33 genocide in Ukraine is at times embarrassingly bad.

2871d ago

Bitter Harvest feels awkward and parochial.

2871d ago

A subject like the Holodomor demands something more than a TV-movie aesthetic and pitched battle scenes featuring a couple dozen combatants.

2871d ago

Despite honourable intentions, this film addressing the Stalin-inflicted 1932-33 genocide in Ukraine is at times embarrassingly bad.

2871d ago

Bitter Harvest feels awkward and parochial.

2871d ago

This tepid television-movie-like tale focuses too narrowly on a pair of separated Ukrainian lovers while the Soviet Union’s 1930s invasion of their country is killing millions.

2871d ago

There ought to be no lack of firepower in telling this shameful tale. Too often, however, Bitter Harvest is guilty of overkill.

2871d ago

This tepid television-movie-like tale focuses too narrowly on a pair of separated Ukrainian lovers while the Soviet Union’s 1930s invasion of their country is killing millions.

2871d ago

There ought to be no lack of firepower in telling this shameful tale. Too often, however, Bitter Harvest is guilty of overkill.

2871d ago

There ought to be no lack of firepower in telling this shameful tale. Too often, however, Bitter Harvest is guilty of overkill.

2871d ago

This tepid television-movie-like tale focuses too narrowly on a pair of separated Ukrainian lovers while the Soviet Union’s 1930s invasion of their country is killing millions.

2871d ago

It’s a history lesson wrapped up in a romance, gallows grim but far too often unnecessarily heavy-handed in a way that drives home the factual historical horrors it portrays while somehow managing to feel like a sizably budgeted but no less maladroit television movie of the week.

2871d ago

Max Irons and Samantha Barks star in George Mendeluk's historical drama about Stalin's forced starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s.

2871d ago

It’s a history lesson wrapped up in a romance, gallows grim but far too often unnecessarily heavy-handed in a way that drives home the factual historical horrors it portrays while somehow managing to feel like a sizably budgeted but no less maladroit television movie of the week.

2871d ago

Max Irons and Samantha Barks star in George Mendeluk's historical drama about Stalin's forced starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s.

2871d ago

It’s a history lesson wrapped up in a romance, gallows grim but far too often unnecessarily heavy-handed in a way that drives home the factual historical horrors it portrays while somehow managing to feel like a sizably budgeted but no less maladroit television movie of the week.

2871d ago

Max Irons and Samantha Barks star in George Mendeluk's historical drama about Stalin's forced starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s.

2871d ago