Old love


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Old love movie review

Director Andreas Dresen and author Laila Stieler like to deal with big topics. Their previous three films together were about

The other side


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The other side movie review

The corona pandemic of 2020 and 2021 caused an (even deeper) division in society in almost all nations around the

Children of the Sun


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Children of the Sun movie review

You can’t create a utopia with someone like Zora (Jella Haase). But probably not without someone like Zora – and

The Idiot(s)


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The Idiot(s) movie review

There is a nice punch line right at the beginning, especially for a German audience: The novel “The Idiot,” completed

I Play Rocky


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I Play Rocky movie review

Rarely has an actor merged with a role as inextricably as Sylvester Stallone. Even before his name is mentioned, there

Unabomber


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Unabomber movie review

In 1978, Theodore John Kaczynski addressed his first explosive mail to Buckley Crist, a professor of materials engineering at Northwestern

Dreary tropes


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Dreary tropes movie review

“Tristes Tropiques” begins with the familiar message that any possible similarities to living and dead people are purely coincidental. But

Hokum


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Hokum movie review

Given the speechless sensational results of “Backrooms” and even more so “Obsession,” which grossed more than 680 times its $750,000

Forgotten Island


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Forgotten Island movie review

For a long time it was said disrespectfully that animated films are children’s stuff. That has now changed, but fundamental