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Never Look Away

Werk ohne Autor

2018

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Sebastian Koch, Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Lars Eidinger ...

6.7

2,531

Drama. Thriller German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Works best as a historical drama that explores the complexity of twentieth-century Germany (...) Technically, this is a marvel (...) Richter’s score is lustrous and warm"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Lit with a poet’s eye by Deschanel and given dramatic heft by von Donnersmarck, [it] lunges at the primitive forces that define our lives. Even when it trips up, it’s never less than exhilarating (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Even when it stumbles, it remains watchable and engaging, partly because von Donnersmarck possesses an old-fashioned Hollywood showman's sensibility.	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] is more sure of what it wants to say than of how it wants to say it (...) In emphasizing how art allows us to make sense of the past (...) Von Donnersmarck loses his grip on the emotional payoff of the present."	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"An epic, intergenerational tale of art, love, tragedy and politics"	POS
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"There's something very gratifying about watching an artist discover what he wants to say and how he wants to say it, even when cramped by the society in which he lives (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"The approach can be frustrating, but there’s an elegance and richness that sustains 'Never Look Away' even when it becomes so enamored of ideas that its emotions start to feel like an afterthought."	NEU
United Kingdom	Demetrios Matheou Screendaily	"[It] is an often moving, thoughtful drama about the correlations between personal experience, politics and art."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is not without ambition and reach, and there is a real storytelling impulse. But the central performance of Schilling looks shruggingly uncertain (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Watching paint dry has never been so riveting (...) Its stateliness is balanced with an absorbing sensuality and grace (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"[It displays] beautiful actors, hot sex scenes and, it must be said, a nagging sense of vacancy (...) Too often, though, 'Never Look Away' plays like overheated melodrama (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
	Camillo de Marco Cineuropa	"'Never Look Away' does engage its audience, despite having a three hour eight-minute-long runtime (...) and being a bit too simplistic, explanatory and didactic"	NEU
Ireland	Paddy Kehoe RTÉ	"[It] is a reasonably engaging human story but it is overly-long and flawed by coincidence and old-fashioned melodrama (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"An ambitious, compelling film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Undeniably enjoyable, absurdly lengthy (...) The cosmetic is valued over the nuanced (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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