Metacritic-Rezensionen

From the outside, Sunshine sounds like the most boring film on Earth. In fact, it's glorious.

So filled with riches that it seems a bit unfair to single out Szabo and Fiennes, no matter how outstanding their work.

It's a brilliant, profound movie, but it's almost no fun at all.

For filmgoers not interested in history, Sunshine might be a three-hour investment they may not want to undertake.

This movie doesn't make you think you are watching art. It's closer to a high-end TV movie with lots of familiar faces.

Sunshine is a trifle schematic. But it also makes you feel, quite poignantly, the crushing tides of history: heedless, inhuman--and tragic.

Many of the plot points seem belabored because they're introduced in the voice-over, then ploddingly dramatized, then analyzed by the family over meals.

Well-intentioned but never entirely engaging chronicle.

Sunshine's historical reference-heavy narrative walks a fine line between novelistic tragedy and comically overstated melodrama, falling down on the job more than once.

That this mess should come from the hand of Istvan Szabo, the brilliant Hungarian director of "Mephisto" and "Colonel Redl," is the real shocker.