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Transit lives up to its title with a challenging drama that captures characters - and puts the audience - in a state of flux and exerts an unsettling pull.
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Phenomenal as an intellectual exercise, a piece of storytelling, a dive into a mysterious, dream-like world, and as a Kafkaesque character drama. January 7, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Phenomenal as an intellectual exercise, a piece of storytelling, a dive into a mysterious, dream-like world, and as a Kafkaesque character drama.
Tim Brayton
Transit is a thrilling and unsettling film that tangibly recreates a nightmare of displacement and uncertainty, but in such a way that could appeal to a broader audience. December 20, 2019 | Rating: 84/100 | Full Review…
Transit is a thrilling and unsettling film that tangibly recreates a nightmare of displacement and uncertainty, but in such a way that could appeal to a broader audience.
Beatrice Loayza
Once Transit's bitterly ironic vision takes hold, it eats into the mind. December 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Once Transit's bitterly ironic vision takes hold, it eats into the mind.
David Edelstein
An audacious reminder that there's more than one way to adapt a so-called "period" novel for a new era. December 20, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
An audacious reminder that there's more than one way to adapt a so-called "period" novel for a new era.
Michael Phillips
Christian Petzold's white-hot existentialist noir Transit is perhaps the best World War II film since Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, even if it hinges on a suspension of disbelief that'll be too far a stretch for some. December 20, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Christian Petzold's white-hot existentialist noir Transit is perhaps the best World War II film since Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, even if it hinges on a suspension of disbelief that'll be too far a stretch for some.
Steve Macfarlane
These two actors mesh well together, effortlessly generating a compelling chemistry borne of a shared sense of unease and immediacy. December 20, 2019 | Full Review…
These two actors mesh well together, effortlessly generating a compelling chemistry borne of a shared sense of unease and immediacy.
Peg Aloi
[A] bold adaptation. December 20, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
[A] bold adaptation.
Paddy Kehoe
Lifting the story out of context in this way works in Petzold's favor, as Transit exists as neither a museum piece nor a harrowing depiction of the current refugee crisis, but rather a literary tale of displacement, identity, and seeking. December 20, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Lifting the story out of context in this way works in Petzold's favor, as Transit exists as neither a museum piece nor a harrowing depiction of the current refugee crisis, but rather a literary tale of displacement, identity, and seeking.
Zachary Orwan
An interesting, if not completely satisfying, drama. December 20, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
An interesting, if not completely satisfying, drama.
Erik Anderson
For a film based around a lie, Transit has a strong narrative foundation, however, the indistinguishable time period, along with other questionable directorial choices, play too melodramatic to be memorable. December 20, 2019 | Full Review…
For a film based around a lie, Transit has a strong narrative foundation, however, the indistinguishable time period, along with other questionable directorial choices, play too melodramatic to be memorable.
Morgan Rojas
Transit captures the tragedy of uncertainty in astonishingly heartbreaking ways. December 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Transit captures the tragedy of uncertainty in astonishingly heartbreaking ways.
Anna Swanson
Inhabiting a realm between the past and present, Europe and America, and also cinema and literature, [Petzold's characters] are, in Hannah Arendt's phrase, "living ghosts among the ruins of our times." December 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Inhabiting a realm between the past and present, Europe and America, and also cinema and literature, [Petzold's characters] are, in Hannah Arendt's phrase, "living ghosts among the ruins of our times."
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