Jessica Chastain gives a quietly emotional performance, despite being saddled with a less-than-riveting character, and director Niki Caro resists manipulative story beats for a sombre tone that slowly accumulates dramatic force. The Zookeeper’s Wife honours the bravery of a Polish couple who safeguarded nearly 300 Jews during the Second World War, but this considered, muted drama can’t escape a fussy tastefulness - not to mention inevitable comparisons to more crackling treatments of similar subject matter.
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