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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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Christian Petzold is a gifted director...but here he mistakes narrative complexity for dramatic rigour. The film didn't need the existential ponderings. The cake was rich enough without the icing. Apr 10, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Christian Petzold is a gifted director...but here he mistakes narrative complexity for dramatic rigour. The film didn't need the existential ponderings. The cake was rich enough without the icing.
Paul Byrnes
It's a demanding film, but gives a lot in return. Mar 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's a demanding film, but gives a lot in return.
Walter V. Addiego
Maybe the place is the point - the story notes that Marseilles is a port city, and "ports are places where stories are told." Stories of survival and escape, but more often, of frustration and heartbreak. Mar 15, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Maybe the place is the point - the story notes that Marseilles is a port city, and "ports are places where stories are told." Stories of survival and escape, but more often, of frustration and heartbreak.
Matthew Lickona
Transit could have been a comedy that Camus might appreciate...The movie haunts, but more in theory than in fact. Mar 14, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Transit could have been a comedy that Camus might appreciate...The movie haunts, but more in theory than in fact.
Ty Burr
Christian Petzold's "Transit" is a fascinating paradox: an anti-romantic romance. It may have the surface trappings of a "Casablanca," but it's closer to "Vertigo." Mar 11, 2019 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Christian Petzold's "Transit" is a fascinating paradox: an anti-romantic romance. It may have the surface trappings of a "Casablanca," but it's closer to "Vertigo."
Peter Rainer
Provocative, even startling, and more edifying than you might expect. Mar 8, 2019 | Full Review…
Provocative, even startling, and more edifying than you might expect.
Joe Morgenstern
A tale about power and immigration told in a timeless era, mixing European present and Nazi past. Acting first class -- but every female character feels squeezed through an intensely sexual male gaze and comes out soulless and riddled with cliches. Apr 18, 2019 | Rating: 6 | Full Review…
A tale about power and immigration told in a timeless era, mixing European present and Nazi past. Acting first class -- but every female character feels squeezed through an intensely sexual male gaze and comes out soulless and riddled with cliches.
Julia Swift
A much different kind of animal, one that fascinates as often as it confounds. Apr 15, 2019 | Full Review…
A much different kind of animal, one that fascinates as often as it confounds.
Rubén Rosario
What lies at the forefront of Transit is a delicately thorny, complex display of dislocation and ambiguity - Petzold deliberately holding the reins tight on this film that's imbued with impossible questions that go right down to the bones of humanity. Apr 12, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
What lies at the forefront of Transit is a delicately thorny, complex display of dislocation and ambiguity - Petzold deliberately holding the reins tight on this film that's imbued with impossible questions that go right down to the bones of humanity.
Debbie Zhou
The juxtaposition of the past and the present keeps us constantly off balance, and make "Transit" a ride to remember. Apr 11, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The juxtaposition of the past and the present keeps us constantly off balance, and make "Transit" a ride to remember.
Sean P. Means
The reverberations with today - particularly with Trump's America and his "border emergency" - are powerful but never emphatic; the greater effect is of a continuum, and that is where the film really is ecstatically original. Apr 10, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The reverberations with today - particularly with Trump's America and his "border emergency" - are powerful but never emphatic; the greater effect is of a continuum, and that is where the film really is ecstatically original.
CJ Johnson
Fear and cruelty are never contained by a single time period. Apr 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Fear and cruelty are never contained by a single time period.
Robert Horton
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