Name : Mike D'Angelo / Alias : AV Club
Dramatically, it's not much of a movie, but if you just want to know how things went down, it's certainly a more exciting precis than Wikipedia's.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
At its best the film evokes the palpable terror of a city where uniformed thugs could arrest or kill anyone at any time with impunity.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
This is a story of heroes, and the second half in particular shows why.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Loses its footing, never quite regaining it until an extended sequence in which the seven parachutists hide out in a church, keeping wave after wave of Nazi soldiers at bay. But by the time it arrives in the film, it's almost too little, too late.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Filmed in sepia tones to give it period flavor, infused with a sense of unrelieved tension and paranoia, and climaxing with a furious gunbattle, "Anthropoid" is a gripping picture.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Though Anthropoid lacks narrative ambition, the film justifies its reason for being thanks to a devastating final half-hour.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
This beautifully photographed but slow-moving thriller dramatizes the events of Operation Anthropoid, the British military mission in which members of the Czech resistance were recruited to assassinate high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
Handsomely produced, with a vivid period atmosphere aided by a faded color palette, which adds both an unease and a glowing sense of nostalgia to the proceedings.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
The story . feels leaden and burdened by a false ending.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
The movie builds - something infinitely preferable to a bold, brash beginning followed by a descent into anti-climax.

Name : Christopher Kompanek / Alias : Washington Post
War movies all too often take it for granted that some causes are worth dying for. To have characters grapple with that notion, imperfectly, is nothing short of cathartic.

Name : Sheri Linden / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Enlightening but seldom riveting .

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Watching this vicious David and Goliath battle is a reminder of humanity's limitless capacity for destruction.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
An hour of plodding preparations does lead to guerrilla action, then to a long shootout in a church, but by then anyone watching will have realized that "Anthropoid" is the code name for a snore.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : indieWIRE
Despite the film's gripping final chapter, its heroic Czechoslovakian characters are completely disconnected from the rest of the country, much like their struggle has been omitted from the cinematic legacy of the war they helped to win.

Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
It takes Sean Ellis's World War II thriller "Anthropoid" a while to build steam, but once it does, hang on.

Name : Boyd van Hoeij / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Valkyrie this is not.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
From an historical viewpoint, the events depicted in Anthropoid are more than enough to hold a viewer's interest, but you never forget that you're watching a movie.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Anthropoid is a peculiarly wooden period piece, as timid characters try to muster the courage to do what is asked of them.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
The final showdown gets blown up and dragged out, but the slow-burning fuse of everything that comes before helps to justify the explosive release.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
It's the kind of movie where, even if you miss the ads, you can guess you'll be seeing Toby Jones.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
A post-script details the aftermath of the movie's action, which seems to underscore the point that war is hell. To that point, so is "Anthropoid."

Name : Marsha Lederman / Alias : Globe and Mail
While it's easy to sneer at the romantic subplot, it serves to humanize the characters and convey their intense fear. Otherwise we know too little about them - beyond the fact they are all impossibly good-looking.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Anthropoid reduces a riveting and resonant piece of WW2 history to moral muddle and monotonous filmmaking. Talk about an opportunity missed.

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : RogerEbert.com
A lot of the time the experience of the movie is like looking at a very long wobbly rectangle, and the frequently abrupt cutting doesn't help.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
A drama of redemption by way of an American Revolution history lesson, Chad Burns' action-adventure yarn offers little in the way of subtlety or surprise.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
[A] stagy, overstuffed costume drama.