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Unlike more traditional spy films, The Lives of Others doesn't sacrifice character for cloak and dagger chases, and the performances (notably that by the late Ulrich Muhe) stay with you.
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The Lives of Others is exquisitely tense, with massive stakes and a pervasive sense of danger. August 23, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The Lives of Others is exquisitely tense, with massive stakes and a pervasive sense of danger.
Christy Lemire
Reopens our eyes to the cruelties and soul assassinations that were carried out daily in the name of state socialism. September 26, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Reopens our eyes to the cruelties and soul assassinations that were carried out daily in the name of state socialism.
David Gritten
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David Fear
Quote not available. November 17, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Hank Sartin
The Lives of Others is a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires. September 21, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The Lives of Others is a powerful but quiet film, constructed of hidden thoughts and secret desires.
Roger Ebert
Few films have dared paint East Germany and its legions of demons in such honest and unsparing detail. Von Donnersmarck puts a pickaxe into the past. April 21, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Few films have dared paint East Germany and its legions of demons in such honest and unsparing detail. Von Donnersmarck puts a pickaxe into the past.
The actors are marvelous, with special mention of Ulrich Muhe who plays Wiesler. He gives a chilling portrayal of a man reluctantly driven to something approaching heroism. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
The actors are marvelous, with special mention of Ulrich Muhe who plays Wiesler. He gives a chilling portrayal of a man reluctantly driven to something approaching heroism.
Ard Vijn
Examines the effects of watching and being watched, both willingly and unwillingly, and turns them into a fascinating work of pure cinematic poetry. June 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Examines the effects of watching and being watched, both willingly and unwillingly, and turns them into a fascinating work of pure cinematic poetry.
Matthew Lucas
As [Captain Gerd] Weisler discovers his real self, layer by layer, we are in the presence of a masterful performance. May 7, 2019 | Full Review…
As [Captain Gerd] Weisler discovers his real self, layer by layer, we are in the presence of a masterful performance.
Shubhra Gupta
Donnersmarck makes an assured debut, builds the atmosphere of deceit, suspicion and suffocation and also undercuts it with some jokey moments. January 30, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Donnersmarck makes an assured debut, builds the atmosphere of deceit, suspicion and suffocation and also undercuts it with some jokey moments.
Namrata Joshi
It uses the syntax and conventions of Hollywood to convey to the widest possible audience some part of the truth about life under the Stasi, and the larger truths that experience revealed about human nature. August 23, 2018 | Full Review…
It uses the syntax and conventions of Hollywood to convey to the widest possible audience some part of the truth about life under the Stasi, and the larger truths that experience revealed about human nature.
Timothy Garton Ash
Cinematic smugness has a fatal impact on the delineation of Wiesler's quietly heroic political calisthenics and The Lives of Others' supposedly uplifting denouement. October 3, 2017 | Full Review…
Cinematic smugness has a fatal impact on the delineation of Wiesler's quietly heroic political calisthenics and The Lives of Others' supposedly uplifting denouement.
Richard Porton
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