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The Good German
A (INDIA)
2007
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The Good German
Positive Reviews
31
Negative reviews
18
Average Rating
2.7
/5
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4.5
It isnt until the end of the movie that the full brunt of her courage and sacrifice becomes achingly clear.
Av Club
4.0
Steven Soderbergh habitually tests and transcends the generic boundaries of mainstream American filmmaking.
Time Out
2.0
The Good Germanis full of brazen sexuality, foul mouthed dialogue and ugly violence.
Screen Daily
3.5
People just dont have the patience needed to appreciate the old time artistry on display here.
Cinema Blend
3.0
When it touches upon these weighty matters, the drama scores points.
Spirituality And Practice
2.8
Most of the film apes the tension found in The Third Man, but the story is too messy and insipid to have a frisson of its own.
Sover
3.1
Foreign intrigue, a mysterious woman, shadows darker than the night Stephen Soderberghs adaptation of the acclaimed WWII era novel by Joseph Kanon is ..
Tv Guide
3.1
The shot on video Bubble seemed to push the edges of the future of cinema with its astonishing deep focus cinematography, its impressive working class ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.9
Theres nothing going for the movie, really, except its ambitionits heavily marred, totally unrealized ambition.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.8
It is worth a look for its style and some fine acting performances.
Lariat
3.5
It feels too much like a game to Clooney, an acting exercise you do in an improv class.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
To call The Good German less than the sum of its parts isnt to dishonor the director nor to dismiss those golden age films he apes.Where Soderbergh sh ..
News Review
4.0
As it progresses, the characters emerge in sharp focus, vivid and full of life well, a 1940s Hollywood movie version of life.Even so, the ultimate eff ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
In addition, the plot is both tedious and confusing and the supposedly dramatic revelations are something of an anti climax.That said, there is a terr ..
View London
2.8
With all this effort, one might expect something gorgeous, or at least gorgeously antiquated.
Cs Monitor
3.5
But it will prove more compelling as a technical study for Film Studies majors than as an entertainment for a general audience.
Film Journal
1.9
Soderbergh gets the visuals right but not the clean storytelling line of classic cinema, nor the iconic characters or moral certainty of the oldies.
Boston
2.2
To sume up, as a pseudo political tale, the film lacks contemporary meaning, and the espionage tinged romance is so detached that it lacks warmth and ..
Emanuellevy
2.5
The noir style works here, but the characters and story fail to grab us like they did and still do while watching Casablanca .
Reel Talk Reviews
3.5
The good student will filter Attanasios intentionally modern sounding dialogue through the actors old fashioned declarations and may experience a thri ..
Ew
2.0
In trying so hard to experiment with bygone styles, Soderbergh and co. have failed to commit to the substance, the spark and the melodrama of the Gold ..
Empire
2.8
But if you have already seen movies like Casablanca and Notorious, why would you want to bother with this wannabe
Movies
1.3
The crucial key elements that every vintage Warners film had as a matter of course are lacking here. The story isnt gripping or even coherent. There i ..
Sf Gate
2.0
In a neat bit of subversion, the 1940s trappings clash with the language, which is as salty and violent as a modern day Mamet or Tarantino.CONVOLUTED ..
Bbc
1.5
Yet The Washington Post found that just four adults have been convicted for failing to lock up the guns used.
Washington Post
0.6
To say the movie is merely boring doesnt seem fitting or epic enough of a word to describe what an excruciating endurance test its 108 minute running ..
The Movie Boy
2.0
Sure, it looks good, but that doesnt count for anything if its a complete drag to watch.
Bullz-Eye
3.2
This results in wooden characters left to recite their lines, with feeling but without dimension.
Reeling Reviews
3.1
The Good German, Steven Soderberghs film noir homage, is nearly perfect when it comes to style and tone, but it concentrates so single mindedly on the ..
ReelViews
3.5
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La ..
Calendar Live
3.0
The Good German is a fascinating experiment and in many ways improves upon the era of filmmaking it recreates.
Hollywood
2.2
It should have been wonderful a delicious tribute to classic Hollywood but it simply doesnt come off.
Seattle Pi
0.0
But what really sets this movie apart is Blanchetts incredible over acting.
Tony Medley
3.2
A beautifully flawed experiment, The Good German is an entertaining if unbalanced war drama that places modern cinema mores on a classic style of Amer ..
Coles Mithey
1.9
But viewers prepared for a slow moving and thoughtful exploration of loss will be rewarded with one of the best films of the year.
Reel Film
2.5
They thought they were saving for their kids education but were shocked to learn their money was gone The new owner of RESP dealer Heritage Education ..
The Star
2.5
You might be tempted to classify it as an interesting failure, but all the crudities and the snails pace make it hard to get through.
Deseret News
4.5
The films final scene is in loving homage to Casablanca, but the mood is darker; The Good German is both a technical and dramatic achievement, a film ..
Urban Cine File
4.0
And thereby lies this Casablancan tale with historical perspective.
Varia Gate
3.8
Maybe its this juxtaposition that jarred me out of the story.Along with the look and feel, the casting is well done.
Three Movie Buffs
3.1
They just dont make them like that anymore..So Ive heard from many a nostalgic film fan over the years in reference to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Christianity Today
3.8
That might be too much to ask, but the films dialogue plops when it should fizz and the ending peters out when it should sizzle.
Big Picture Big Sound
2.5
Much like a horror movie clone, The Good German looks like Casablanca , but seems to be missing something fundamental underneath it all, that will eve ..
Waffle Movies
3.5
The Bottom Line: The Good German is an intriguing WWII murder mystery that should appeal to fans of old time film noir.
ComingSoon
3.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.1
Its not devoid of its own ideas, its own creative impulses or its own troubled characters sketched in monochrome.It isnt.
Chron
1.0
In The Good German, director Steven Soderbergh tries to pay homage to the old black and white movies of the 1940s.Homage is fine, but the movie also h ..
Tony Mack
2.5
It certainly makes for unique viewing, but in this case, the gimmickry overcomes the substance too often, leaving us with an interesting stunt rather ..
Flip Side Archive
2.5
Steven Soderberghs The Good German is a heroic exercise in dress up that never quite convinces us weve left the wardrobe department.Soderbergh tries n ..
Denver Post
2.0
If it werent for a singular, gripping performance by Cate Blanchett, The Good German might as well have been titled The Incredibly Boring German.
Metro Weekly
3.1
The Good German gets lost amidst its references; it doesnt stand by itself but is held up by the films that inspired it.
Seattle Times
2.8
This is a film filled with superior production values and respectful tones, but it just never manages to carve itself out a spot of its own.
English Oh My News
4.1
While not exactly a bad film, the casual viewer is likely to be bored if not irritated by the films formalist style and surprising lack of substance ( ..
Ar Kansas Online
1.7
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
Time Out Ny
1.5
I tousle the hair of The Good German, pat it on the butt, and tell it to eat its vegetables so one day it may grow up into a real Motion Picture.
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