My Wife Cries ★
To anyone who made it through the roughly one and a half hours of Angela Schanelec‘s contrived conversation piece, itContinue Reading
Tag: Germany
Trial of Hein ★★½
There is a strange stage-like quality to Kai Stänicke‘s first feature Trial of Hein, premiering in the 76th Berlinale’s PerspectivesContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: Yellow Letters, In a Whisper, Rose
Let’s catch up with the Competition, shall we? When I wrote about Rosebush Pruning I mentioned that a lot ofContinue Reading
Ballad of a Small Player ★★
Edward Berger is arguably one of the most in-demand filmmakers right now, with the successes of his German-language remake ofContinue Reading
Friedas Fall ★★½
“The wolf often comes in sheep’s clothing,” comments a disdainful prison warden in Maria Brendle’s ambitious combination of period pieceContinue Reading
Amrum ★★
There’s a treacherous tranquility to the title of Fatih Akin‘s latest foray into biographic topics after the much nastier TheContinue Reading
September 5 ★★★
“It’s not about politics. It’s about emotion.” -Roone Arledge Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) delivers this line in regards to airingContinue Reading
Conclave ★★★½
The Pope is dead. After a period of mourning, it is time for a papal conclave to identify the manContinue Reading
The Outrun ★★★
The Outrun opens with narration about selkies, a mythical creature said to be the souls of drowned people that takeContinue Reading
Cuckoo ★★
Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) is in a difficult place in her life. Her mother has recently died, and she is nowContinue Reading
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