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Alone in Berlin

2016

Vincent Pérez

Daniel Brühl, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Katharina Schüttler ...

5.8

941

Drama Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their only son has lost his life in the battlefield and decide to resist the Nazi regime in their very own way. Soon the Gestapo is hunting "the threat".

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Handsomely packaged, the film unfortunately is also too well-behaved and lacking in psychological depth to really set itself apart from countless other WWII dramas"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson bring some stoic dignity to a conservatively told true story of Nazi resistance. (...) [A] diverting but terminally fusty story (...)	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"Filmed with competence rather than actual verve, Alone in Berlin works – just about (...)Though its fundamentally old-fashioned approach acts as a drag, its good intentions see it through (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"It has a silly script, and gauche direction (...) what’s left is a coarse (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"[It] proceeds like a train crossing a plain. Without twists or turns, hills or valleys, its dramatic engine chugs reliably forward, delivering its cargo of World War II tragedy with bland efficiency."	NEG
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"The only thing exciting about 'Alone In Berlin' is the fact that it’s a true story"	NEG
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"This film version, a solid if unremarkable historical drama, lacks any exceptional ring of truth and offers a sketch of life in wartime Berlin that feels familiar and not especially revealing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Brad Wheeler The Globe and Mail	"Its intentions are commendable and its photography is fine-looking, but the drama is as low-key as the couple’s small, symbolic insurgence (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Chicago Tribune	"Classically restrained in form and flavor (...) [Gleeson] is excellent (...) His onscreen rapport with Thompson, too, is gently moving (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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