A different interpretation that attacks the same economic system... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2023

The epic crime tale reduced to a mere three hours leaves a lot to be desired.

| Sep 14, 2021

Berlin Alexanderplatz crackles because Welket Bungué is magnetic in the central role.

| Aug 26, 2021

Instead of building to any sort of climax to justify its three-hour runtime, Berlin Alexanderplatz spins out into infinity, confusing circuity for world-building.

| Jun 6, 2021

The basic story remains a long, cruel downward slide of degradations and injustices. But Qurbani lends it considerable style and energy, his updated cautionary fable further made palatable by lead Bungue's charisma...

| May 27, 2021

The new Berlin Alexanderplatz is worth seeing and at times is moving. The director clearly wants to encourage social debate. But the film squanders opportunities and fails to place its finger on the wound.

| May 20, 2021

Beautiful and atmospheric but essentially empty and pointless, Berlin Alexanderplatz hits you with the bluntness of a sledgehammer.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 18, 2021

Berlin Alexanderplatz falls somewhere in the mediocre middle.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2021

There is much to admire about Qurbani's ambitious reimagining of Berlin Alexanderplatz, but despite some strong performances and visual flair, I'm not entirely convinced Franz Biberkopf should have ever left the Weimar Republic.

| May 1, 2021

It's almost as if the movie has adopted Francis' mantra; it keeps promising to be good before collapsing into formless decadence, losing itself and possibly an audience along with it.

| May 1, 2021

[Qurbani]'s "Berlin Alexanderplatz" is a nice place to visit but you might not want to live there for three hours.

| Apr 30, 2021

Exhausting and exhilarating, these desperate characters re-birthed from the Weimar Republic novel and Europe's colonies won't stop dreaming, and can't be forgotten.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 30, 2021

Potent stuff, and Burhan Qurbani, working with co-screenwriter Martin Behnke, marry a novelistic structure with the high-octane energy of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2021

American director John Huston once said you should never remake a great film, it only sets you up for disappointing reception. That hold true here.

| Apr 26, 2021

Berlin Alexanderplatz is a grand and ambitious film that has a great start but simply loses its narrative focus by trying to juggle a few too many things. It's an unfortunate letdown given the narrative's very apparent potential.

| Mar 17, 2020

A heavy-handed re-imagining.

| Feb 29, 2020

Burhan Qurbani's Berlin Alexanderplatz breathes fresh air into the classic tale with his diverse, topically relevant remake.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 28, 2020

In modernising 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', Qurbani has created an ambitious but also stridently melodramatic moral parable that seems oddly dated.

| Feb 26, 2020

The episodic, sometimes almost soap-operatic nature of Qurbani's storytelling sacrifices a great deal of thematic depth for a great deal of eventing instead.

| Feb 26, 2020