One can chart the very moment that Victoria’s existence slips out of the routine into the nightmarish, and there’s no escape by temporal omission.
A character study of two people desperately fighting for a seemingly unattainable life, Matthias Glasner’s film is rigorous and wrenching.
This is contemplative rape film that Irréversible wished it were.
Youth Without Youth principally stands as a great director’s blast-off into crazy.
This contribution to the serial killer genre proves that the compulsion to plagiarize Se7en is at least as communicable a disease.
The drama exudes a sobering gravity, but after a while the whole thing starts to exhibit the look and feel of a History Channel original movie.
Downfall challenges us not to derive schadenfreude from watching the Germans in the film getting flushed down the toilet.
The film conveys a chilling vision of rats being slowly flushed down a toilet.