With The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it’s hard to figure out just what the movie thinks it’s offering beyond the simple conclusion that Hitler and the Holocaust represent humankind at its worst.

Synopsis: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime.

With “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” writer-director Mark Herman attempts to do on film what John Boyne did on the printed page in his 2006 novel: Confront the horror of the Holocaust in a ...

Of all the stories to be told of the Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas offers a new one. The story of a friendship between the son of a Nazi and a Jewish boy inside a death camp is too ...

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas' premise sounds like an overwrought movie parody of the type that shows up at the beginning of Tropic Thunder: During World War II, the 8-year-old son of a German ...

Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" tells the story of how the son of a Nazi commandant (Asa Butterfield) and a Jewish boy in a concentration camp (Jack ...

An almost unfilmable novel about a young German kid's-eye view of the Holocaust gets a solid, ultimately powerful translation to the bigscreen.

Concentrating on the point of view of the 8-year-old boy, Bruno, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" has the structure and aura of a fable, but it aims for no fablelike distance in its emotions.

The announcement comes just weeks after “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” which has sold 11 million copies and spawned a movie adaptation that grossed $44 million, faced a fresh round of ...

The home life of the Nazi commandant of a World War II concentration camp appears bizarrely serene in Mark Herman's grave and powerful drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," but the ...