"The Book Thief" opens with Death. As you might expect, Death isn't a normal narrator. He sees colors before humans because they are a distraction from his line of work. Death has collected millions ...

Narrated by Death itself, The Book Thief offers a unique and profoundly sad fictional window into Nazi Germany at the onset of World War II. The story follows Liesel Meminger, a 9-year-old girl who’s ...

March 17, 2006— -- Kind and compassionate Death narrates the tale of a town in Nazi Germany. The story is based on Death's perception of the young orphan, Liesl, her foster parents and the Jewish ...

Sometimes you can tell that a film is far too respectful to its source, even if you haven’t read the novel. Take director Brian Percival’s bland adaptation of Markus Zusak’s best-selling The Book ...

Whatever virtues turned “The Book Thief” into an acclaimed and honored international best seller are strangely absent from the film adaptation. A sad orphan’s story bereft of emotion, a paean to books ...

There’s a distinct whiff of alarm about the scene in this new musical adaptation of The Book Thief in which the Nazis parade book-burning as a sound and moral thing to do. It is, after all, something ...

Based on Australian author Markus Zusak’s best-selling 2006 novel of the same name, the movie “The Book Thief” concerns a young German girl who finds solace in purloined literature and befriends the ...