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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyBlack Book is Verhoeven's best film since "RoboCop": audacious, smart, shamelessly entertaining.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettIt succeeds on almost all fronts. The epic film is a high-octane adventure rooted in fact with a raft of arresting characters, big action sequences and twists and turns galore.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversJust for starters, no movie about the Dutch Resistance during World War II has any right to be this wildly entertaining, not to mention this provocative and potently erotic.
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliBlack Book possesses a taut, exciting script that throws surprises at the viewer on a regular basis.
- 88TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghWhile Rachel's story is fiction, many of its incidents are rooted in historical events carefully researched by Soeteman and the film's briskly staged action and stunning reversals of fortune ensure that its two and a half hours fly by.
- 88USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigA hard-core war film with raw violence, intense action, graphic sexuality and a twisting plot that offers a series of surprises.
- 80VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyMoves like an express train across almost 2½ hours without any sense of rush and with strong, empathetic characters etched en route.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanBlack Book, which takes its title from a secret list of Dutch collaborators, is an impressively old-fashioned yet fashionably embittered movie.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAs epic as its two-hours-and-25-minute running time indicates, Black Book is as subversive as it is traditional, both enamored of conventional notions of heroism and frankly contemptuous of them.
- 30The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneThis is trash pretending to serve the cause of history: a "Dirty Dozen" knockoff with one eye on "Schindler’s List."