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The Tin Drum is, in fact, almost everything anybody could ask a film to be. It is strikingly original and continuously surprising. Apr 22, 2019 | Full Review…
The Tin Drum is, in fact, almost everything anybody could ask a film to be. It is strikingly original and continuously surprising.
Charles Champlin
Schlöndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third. Sep 18, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Schlöndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third.
R. Emmet Sweeney
The story it tells is so outsized, bizarre, funny, and eccentric, the movie compels attention. May 20, 2003 | Full Review…
The story it tells is so outsized, bizarre, funny, and eccentric, the movie compels attention.
Vincent Canby
Walks a taut, high rope between doubles and split selves, docu-realism and surrealism, brutality and naïveté, sacred and profane, and history and myth, without falling into the safety net of childish fantasy. (It only falters in its final half-hour.) Jul 11, 2013 | Full Review…
Walks a taut, high rope between doubles and split selves, docu-realism and surrealism, brutality and naïveté, sacred and profane, and history and myth, without falling into the safety net of childish fantasy. (It only falters in its final half-hour.)
Brian Gibson
If ever [the characters in] a film embodied Hannah Arendt's principle of "the banality of evil", it's The Tin Drum... Jan 23, 2013 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
If ever [the characters in] a film embodied Hannah Arendt's principle of "the banality of evil", it's The Tin Drum...
Sarah Boslaugh
There are many themes running through The Tin Drum: resistance against an unkind world, the need for acceptance, the horrors of romance and war, and the final idea that growth is inevitable and unfortunately, necessary. Jan 16, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There are many themes running through The Tin Drum: resistance against an unkind world, the need for acceptance, the horrors of romance and war, and the final idea that growth is inevitable and unfortunately, necessary.
Eric Melin
In Volker Schlöndorff's restored version of his 1979 classic, Oskar Matzerath emerges as a tragic anti-hero, whose lustful imagination and prodigious magical gifts can't shield him from the juggernaut of war. Sep 18, 2012 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
In Volker Schlöndorff's restored version of his 1979 classic, Oskar Matzerath emerges as a tragic anti-hero, whose lustful imagination and prodigious magical gifts can't shield him from the juggernaut of war.
Ela Bittencourt
The literal adaptation doesn't transfer that well to film. Jan 30, 2011 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The literal adaptation doesn't transfer that well to film.
Dennis Schwartz
This movie rests on the small shoulders of David Bennent as 'three-year-old' Oskar Matzerath, and the undersized twelve-year-old comes up wonderful. Nov 8, 2010 | Full Review…
This movie rests on the small shoulders of David Bennent as 'three-year-old' Oskar Matzerath, and the undersized twelve-year-old comes up wonderful.
Donald J. Levit
Context is everything. Although often mistaken as a black comedy, Volker Schlöndorff's bold adaptation of Günter Grass's abstractly autobiographical 1959 novel is an exemplary model of European magic realist cinema. Apr 15, 2009 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
Context is everything. Although often mistaken as a black comedy, Volker Schlöndorff's bold adaptation of Günter Grass's abstractly autobiographical 1959 novel is an exemplary model of European magic realist cinema.
Cole Smithey
Fascinating allegory with war, death themes and little boy who won't grow up. Mar 22, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
Fascinating allegory with war, death themes and little boy who won't grow up.
Steve Crum
Technically and stylistically, The Tin Drum is an astounding work. Thematically, it strives for an importance it only sometimes achieves Oct 4, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Technically and stylistically, The Tin Drum is an astounding work. Thematically, it strives for an importance it only sometimes achieves
Ken Hanke
Well made but disturbing.
Super Reviewer
A little German boy decides to stop growing up at 3 and a half years old, then watches as Hitler rises to power. A classic comic nightmare about "little people's" acquiescence to Nazism.
Darkly humor, surrealism and controversial, Die Blechtrommel is a dazzing, entertaning and unique film that bring to us a great direction, just like the screenplay and David Bennent's performance. One of the best films that I ever saw and also one of the most shocking. Fresh.
Mischievous, visually stunning, hilarious and compelling. quite an achievement adapting GÃ 1/4nter Grass' novel.
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