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The Golden Glove

Der Goldene Handschuh

2019

Fatih Akin

Jonas Dassler, Margarete Tiesel, Katja Studt, Martina Eitner-Acheampong ...

6.5

3,640

Thriller. Horror. Drama A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"It’s not psychologically insightful as a study of violently toxic masculinity, nor even particularly informative as a cold account of a corrupt life (...) [It's] as dull as it is grueling."	NEG
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Watching old alcoholic prostitutes being lured to their deaths has the morbid fascination of all true crime tales, but the unremitting bleakness of Akin’s vision (...) is likely to be too much for most viewers to take."	NEU
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"If you can stomach the more extreme offerings of cinema, one that happens to be based on a nasty figure in German history, then I urge you to seek this one out (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Akin’s empty spectacle of supreme ugliness never has the temerity to do anything more than disgust its audience (...) His film is dead from the moment it starts"	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"While the film is fascinated by the degraded details of Honka’s life, what’s missing is much sense of what shaped him into the monster he became."	NEU
United States	Pat Brown Slant	"[It] ultimately feels like a version of [George] Grosz’s work but without real commitments. It’s mostly an excuse to stage some unsettling murder scenes in the grimy underbelly of Hamburg.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG

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