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A more-or-less successful thriller that can rely for tension on the shadowy setting of a society trying to hide from itself. Oct 21, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A more-or-less successful thriller that can rely for tension on the shadowy setting of a society trying to hide from itself.
Kate Taylor
Klaussner's powerful performance as Bauer ... snaps the picture back into focus. Sep 8, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Klaussner's powerful performance as Bauer ... snaps the picture back into focus.
Peter Keough
It's a compelling portrait both of Bauer and of a fraught moment in German history. Sep 1, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
It's a compelling portrait both of Bauer and of a fraught moment in German history.
Kerry Lengel
Kraume brings muted colors and a claustrophobic, urgent energy to the procedural part of this story, while reminding us that not every moral hero looks like Captain America - in fact, like Bauer, they can be a rumpled, misanthropic mess. Sep 1, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Kraume brings muted colors and a claustrophobic, urgent energy to the procedural part of this story, while reminding us that not every moral hero looks like Captain America - in fact, like Bauer, they can be a rumpled, misanthropic mess.
Tom Keogh
Klaussner's fine performance keeps us on edge through most of the film, even though we know the result. Aug 24, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Klaussner's fine performance keeps us on edge through most of the film, even though we know the result.
Leba Hertz
What "The People vs. Fritz Bauer" does so well is distill large, complicated political issues into an intimate, personal story about one man's desire to bring not only justice, but catharsis to post-war Germany, mired in a fog of complacency. Aug 19, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
What "The People vs. Fritz Bauer" does so well is distill large, complicated political issues into an intimate, personal story about one man's desire to bring not only justice, but catharsis to post-war Germany, mired in a fog of complacency.
Katie Walsh
The dialogue is too expository and makes references to events that we should see dramatized, especially Bauer's earlier life and how he would have experienced 1945. Feb 12, 2019 | Full Review…
The dialogue is too expository and makes references to events that we should see dramatized, especially Bauer's earlier life and how he would have experienced 1945.
Michael McNeely
Kraume deftly blends historical drama and a legal procedural with a noirish cold war era spy thriller elements in the highly entertaining The People vs. Fritz Bauer. Aug 28, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Kraume deftly blends historical drama and a legal procedural with a noirish cold war era spy thriller elements in the highly entertaining The People vs. Fritz Bauer.
Andrew Parker
The result may not be highbrow experimental art cinema, but ... its explicit mission to tell Bauer's story to as many people as it can shouldn't be underrated in the current global political climate. Aug 25, 2018 | Full Review…
The result may not be highbrow experimental art cinema, but ... its explicit mission to tell Bauer's story to as many people as it can shouldn't be underrated in the current global political climate.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
The film stupidly demands the younger man's sacrifice for Bauer's continued vigilance. Nov 29, 2017 | Full Review…
The film stupidly demands the younger man's sacrifice for Bauer's continued vigilance.
Max Goldberg
Director/co-writer Lars Kraume navigates this complex, fascinating story chronologically with his and Olivier Guez's screenplay a targeted indictment of post-WWII Nazis hiding in plain sight with each other's cooperation duplicity. Aug 29, 2017 | Full Review…
Director/co-writer Lars Kraume navigates this complex, fascinating story chronologically with his and Olivier Guez's screenplay a targeted indictment of post-WWII Nazis hiding in plain sight with each other's cooperation duplicity.
Diane Carson
Somewhat conservative in its production crafts but alive with moral risk and ideological duplicity Jan 31, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Somewhat conservative in its production crafts but alive with moral risk and ideological duplicity
Craig Mathieson
Bauer's engagement in hunting down Nazis in the 1950s makes for a pretty interesting plot. Unfortunately, the delivery, especially by camerawork and music is sometimes closer to a TV movie than a motion picture. Same goes for some minor actors. The sleazy journalist or genderbending hooker feel entirely out of place in this story, even though they're probably based on true events. Still, a pretty interesting look at Germany at a time when the country wanted to move on but still had some leftover Nazis in their midst.
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