Director Uli Edel and producer and screenwriter Bernd Eichinger don't take sides. They don't condemn, but nor do they excuse. Instead, they leave us to make up our own minds.

| Nov 15, 2020

Edel's mix of historical footage and dramatized scenes provide little more than a breezy history lesson.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2019

Taut and ferocious, a lean, solid, unsentimental narrative that dives right into the nitty gritty details of its subject.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2019

It is brutal, relentless, nihilistic, violent, terrifying, relentless, psychopathic, and yet it is so powerful, so explosively febrile, it compels you to watch and keep watching.

| Aug 23, 2018

It's almost tempting to discuss The Baader Meinhof Complex as if it was a documentary. Mr. Edel has very carefully recreated a distantly removed time and actions hard to sympathize with and in doing so has created a riveting and remarkable film.

| Aug 9, 2018

Two problems I had with the film were that the subtitles were too small making them difficult to read and that they did not remain on the screen long enough to adequately read. Nevertheless, it is an amazing movie and well worth your time.

| Jan 17, 2018

In the end, however expansive, action-packed and powerfully shot The Baader-Meinhof Complex undoubtedly is, it remains a disturbing hybrid that leaves the viewer jaded, bizarrely perplex and ultimately unsatisfied.

| Sep 26, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

A stirring, bloodcurdling terrorist drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2011

This flick was written by Stefan Aust, long-time editor of Der Spiegel, Germany's version of Time Magazine. Hence the lurid, superficial and reactionary tilt. The Baader-Meinhof gang was disgusting, but nearly as disgusting as the people they fought.

| Nov 22, 2010

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 10, 2010

A glossy, pulse pounding pure Hollywood-style thriller designed for the express purpose of demythologizing its protagonists.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 1, 2010

... the detail is fascinating and it is mesmerizing to watch this idealistic rebellion swamped by obsession, revolutionary fervor and the psychotic drive of Andreas Baader...

| Apr 11, 2010

The Baader Meinhof Complex is a terrific entertainment, an action packed look at anarchy in the streets followed by the specious slacker malaise argued behind closed doors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2010

An impressive period reconstruction and a ripping yarn that never reduces its complicated and conflicted characters to stereotypes ... one of the best action movies of last year and a thoughtful essay on the futility of violence.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Apr 2, 2010

Filmed through tear gas and broken glass, Edel graphically depict the horrific violence (the group was responsible for nearly 30 deaths) while equally layering in substance.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Jan 10, 2010

One of the ten best films of 2009

| Original Score: A- | Dec 30, 2009

The 150-minute-long, Oscar-nominated foreign-language film, based on a 1987 book, has a rat-a-tat pace and a lurid, film noir quality that captures the chaos and hysteria of the era that bred and sustained them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2009

It's not surprising the film was Germany's 2008 submission for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2009