Rossellini is perhaps the only filmmaker in the world who knows how to get us interested in an action while leaving it in its objective con- text. Our emotion is thus rid of all sentimentality, for it has been filtered by force through our intelligence.

| Jun 13, 2023

Utterly pessimistic in every regard.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2021

The images of the city are extraordinary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 23, 2020

An unrelenting searchlight and a humane act of commiseration

| Aug 11, 2014

The colossal rubble of Berlin is not just an analogue to the collapse of the social order but an amazing sight, and the movie makes you feel the weight of every smashed faade and fallen stone.

| May 20, 2014

Short and very downbeat, this hits the irony buttons rather too much but is still an uncomfortable, powerful film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2014

One of cinema's most frightening films, Germany Year Zero concerns one of the most frightening periods of history.

| May 20, 2014

The documentary footage of a decimated Berlin is still enormously powerful, especially when compared to the coverage of that other vanquished, but unscathed, capital in Rome, Open City.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2014

[VIDEO ESSAY] In war, Rossellini seems to say, it is the innocent that suffer most.

| Original Score: A+ | Jan 21, 2014

While mainstream reportage operates all kinds of cliched evasions, Rossellini's cinematic experimentation enables us as spectators to develop our capacity for compassion. And we need this at the present time, perhaps more than ever.

| Jul 30, 2010

Even if you don't entirely buy into the final moments (which I didn't), they do little to lessen the power and profundity of the film's overall message about what a world at war does to those caught in the crossfire

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 5, 2010

Though war has ended, ideology endures. Carpet bombing cant bury a generation of poisonous lies.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 17, 2010

Pic isn't acted but 'lived.' Pro and non-pro cast play it with uniform sincerity. Edmund Meschke is the most impressive of the lot, delivering a poignant, believable portrayal as the young disgraced hero.

| Mar 26, 2009

A horror movie that declines to tease.

| Jun 24, 2006

The sum effect of the presentation is a sense of bleak discomfort and despair, unrelieved by any purge of the emotions.

| Mar 25, 2006

A horror movie in the manner of a neo-realist film, where fantasy mixes with reality.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 21, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 23, 2004

Quickly makes you forget its soapbox agenda and delves into a deeply felt story so powerful it hurts.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2003

Fantstico drama sobre a situao do ps-guerra, cria um personagem verossmil e sua tragdia ilustra com dor o que era viver na Alemanha naquela poca.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2003