Helmed by “Downton Abbey” director Brian Percival, “The Book Thief” doesn’t carry a heavy war-movie presence. And while the starkness of the book is lightened, Percival’s adaptation is ...

In the film adaptation of “The Book Thief,” opening in limited release today, Hans is played by Oscar-winning Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who in research for the part read a book about day ...

After Hans teaches her to read, Liesel’s world begins to expand, ... “The Book Thief” has a sleekness to it. That feeling is mirrored in a plot that feels whitewashed in some ways.

The Book Thief is unsettling and unsentimental, yet ultimately poetic. Its grimness and tragedy run through the reader's mind like a black-and-white movie, bereft of the colors of life.

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 ...

Nevertheless, in The Book Thief, Hans Hubermann is a glorious man—as only a human can be.In the finitude of time and space. "Your majesty," Hans says, eyes twinkling, to coax a reluctant Liesel ...

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‘The Book Thief’ Review: ... Hans soon discovers that Liesel can’t read and that she has swiped the gravedigger’s manual because she would like to remedy the situation.

Nélisse stars in The Book Thief as the nine-year-old girl Liesel, who is sent to live with her foster parents Rosa (Emily Rush) and Hans Hubermann (Geoffrey Rush) because her birth mother is a ...

‘The Book Thief’ a tedious though historically accurate parade of cliches. Whatever virtues turned “The Book Thief” into an acclaimed and honored international best seller are strangely ...

Zusak says “The Book Thief” was partially inspired by stories his parents — who had grown up in Europe during World War II — told him about seeing cities on fire and Jews being marched to ...

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 ...