Richter makes wonderful if obvious use of the wall and the tunnel as built-in metaphors for our struggle for human connection and dread of helplessness and change.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

It is the kind of superbly crafted, intelligent entertainment -- a classic suspense thriller -- that nowadays is as welcome as it is rare.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 15, 2005

Richter gives a raw, frank but sophisticated account of the excruciating logistics of this great escape, and the appalling, inspiring blend of betrayal and courage that attended the group's herculean efforts.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2005

A true story few people will know, and it's told with a warm, crafty efficiency that makes for wonderful entertainment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2005

It's a gripping great-escape yarn of the sort we don't see much anymore.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2005

Either as history at its most inspiring or moviemaking at its most exciting, The Tunnel is a trip.

| Aug 19, 2005

It's so well told that you'll be biting your nails until the film's final few minutes.

| Aug 18, 2005

Based on a true story from the late 1950s, this thrilling drama looks at the extraordinary lengths taken by a group of West Berliners to dig a tunnel under the city's barbed-wire border with East Berlin.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2005

Director Roland Suso Richter maintains tension for 2 1/2 hours, even though the resolution is almost surreal.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2005

Richter's brisk direction keeps us riveted through the suspenseful finish of his vivid history lesson.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2005

Roland Suso Richter's darkly atmospheric film recounts the effort of a group of people to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2005

It's distressing to learn how much German television looks like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.

Full Review | Apr 26, 2005

If it weren't for subtitles, Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel would be indistinguishable from a polished made-for-온라인카지노추천 timewaster from anywhere in the world such things are produced.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2003

It's all a bit reminiscent of Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot -- different war, but a similar stylistic economy and claustrophobic mood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2003