The film outstays its welcome and is more than a little too knowing in its manipulation of standard audience expectations for the genre.

| Mar 26, 2009

Haneke's snooty admonishments are disturbing because they're never self-critical.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2006

Brilliant, radical, provocative, it's a masterpiece that is at times barely watchable.

| Jan 26, 2006

A firestarter for post-screening arguments, alight with ghastly images and actions, and essayed by a spot-on cast and storyline that flows seamlessly from one nightmarish incident to the next.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The emotions of the victims are clear and complex -- their conflicts dominate our experience of the narrative as powerfully as all the devices telling us to look elsewhere for the movie's themes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The basic puzzle is why this sophisticated director chose this tired formula.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This beautifully acted and paced German variant of Cape Fear ... is tricked out with a number of Brechtian devices to catch audiences in a voyeuristic trance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a film you might argue with, but its sparing use of on-screen violence, some extraordinarily protracted scenes and sensitive handling of thorny subject matter make it also a film you ought to see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000