Running time/rating: 2:11, PG-13 for some violence and intense depiction of thematic material. Rarely has a story about an angelic schoolgirl been narrated by Death. But such is the case in the dark ...

Narrated, like the international best-seller upon which it is based, by Death (Roger Allam), “The Book Thief” has been derided as Holocaust kitsch by some. But I dare you not to be swept up in this ...

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“The Book Thief” is terribly likable, which is an odd thing to say about a Holocaust movie. Based on the best-selling book by Markus Zusak, the film is set in a small town in World War II-era Germany.

In 1938, the young girl Liesel Meminger is traveling by train with her mother and her younger brother when he dies. Her mother buries the boy in a cemetery by the tracks and Liesel picks up a book, ...

Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) arrives in Germany at the age of 9. Her mother has given her up for adoption, saving her from the Nazis, but her brother—also selected by her adoptive parents to have ...

In Brian Percival’s The Book Thief, Liesel, played by Sophie Nélisse, reads to Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jewish man in hiding from the Nazis. Photography courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. On the weekend ...

Successful young-adult novels more often then not involve vampires, magic, sci-fi or fantasy worlds. The beloved 2006 international best-seller “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak instead relies on the ...

Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” is the emotional story of finding family and love. Set during the Holocaust, Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger and the boy-next-door, Rudy Steiner. Liesel and ...

Successful young-adult novels more often then not involve vampires, magic, sci-fi or fantasy worlds. The beloved 2006 international best-seller “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak instead relies on the ...