Metacritic-Rezensionen

This is moviemaking on the highest dramatic, psychological, and moral plane.

A thoughtfully written drama of ideas with vivid performances by August Diehl and Ulrich Matthes.

Powerful, concise, fully sustained.

It's important for the film to establish the concentration camp as a hell on earth from the start, but Schlöndorff has more in mind than creating another reminder of the inhumanity of fascism.

It doesn't measure up to Schlondorff's 1979 Oscar winner, "The Tin Drum," but it's compelling nevertheless.

Succeeds in illuminating an almost unimaginably dark story.

A grim meditation on faith and betrayal that focuses on a relatively obscure corner of Holocaust history: the fate of the Catholic clergy under the Third Reich.

The film is thought-provoking but not terribly involving.

Plays best as a dry exercise in historical doublespeak and rationalization.

Earnest but ambling drama.