The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Reviews

Wow, the NYT critic wasn't very flattering and Wall Steet Journal raved -you can check out all the various reviews here:

Here is a little from Wall Street Journal Review :

by DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
It's a given, this column noted a while back, that in "Hallmark Hall of Fame" productions darkness may threaten, but not for long -- not in those gleaming, handsomely mounted dramas with their inevitable satisfactory resolutions. All the more remarkable, then, that this weekend should bring "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler" (Sunday, 9-11 p.m. EDT, on CBS), a new production so terrifying in its power and its refusal of false notes. There is in this story of the Polish social worker who -- with a band of like-minded compatriots -- set about saving as many Jews as she could from annihilation at the hands of the German occupiers no glimmer of happy endings or darkness lifting.

This is a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" film unlike any other -- but more important by far, it's unlike any other ever made on this history of rescuers and the rescued. In writer-director John Kent Harrison's picture, the heroes aren't given to speechmaking about the noble cause, and neither do the Germans make declarations on their ultimate aims for the Jews -- which is, in any event, entirely clear. That scrupulous avoidance of underlining and bombast would by itself be a case for the film's distinction, but it's only one of many.

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