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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80NPRElla TaylorNPRElla TaylorGeneration War holds the line admirably in showing how totalitarianism corrupts almost everything in its path, individual responsibility included, and creates an appalling space where sadists and conformists alike can flourish and break every rule of war at will.
- 60The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayGeneration War never becomes great, but it overcomes its stiff start in large part due to its scope.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfIt plays like a conventional melodrama with better-than-average production values.
- 60VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonOverly melodramatic but fairly engrossing.
- 58Portland OregonianMarc MohanPortland OregonianMarc MohanWhile it's an effective memoriam for the well-meaning Germans whose lives were ruined by Hitler's mad dream, the refusal of Generation War to focus on any other sort of German makes it both dramatically and historically suspect.
- 50Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneThe perverse thrill of seeing less-than-popular considerations of Nazism on screen fades hurriedly to the old ache of seeing any kind of questions about Nazism answered noxiously.
- 50The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergThe A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergBy conveniently exempting its protagonists from ideology or culpability, Generation War feels less like a reckoning than a dodge: Yes, your grandparents may have been Nazis—but they could have been these nice people, too.
- 50Village VoiceMichelle OrangeVillage VoiceMichelle OrangeGeneration War seeks the epic, creating multiple, lavishly realized worlds and moving with confidence between them. What it finds of both history and its individuals is less complete.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottAs television drama, Generation War is unquestionably effective. As dramatized history, it is pretty questionable.
- 50New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmeThe densely plotted Generation War sweeps past implausibilities and offers the can’t-put-it-down qualities of a superior airport novel; its last third is affecting. But a bold confrontation with the past? Not so much.