With the Hungarian song "Gloomy Sunday" as its thematic centerpiece, this personalized story of Budapest during World War II becomes a satisfying romantic drama about four divergently different people.

| Original Score: B | May 13, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Undoubtedly deserves to be added to the ranks of the best Holocaust films ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 2, 2007

It's old-fashioned, sometimes accomplished, syrupy and, at its intermittent best, absorbing.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 20, 2007

Like many European films, GLOOMY SUNDAY has crisp cinematography and gorgeous production design, not to mention that hauntingly melancholic titular tune. The principal actors, for the most part, are attractive and talented. The movie apes the traditi

| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2007

This strange movie has a hard time balancing all these elements, but the film's enormous passion overcomes its more obvious melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2006

It's hard to say which is more ravishing and alluring in the movie, Ms. Marozsan or the celebrated song.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 10, 2006

| Original Score: 76/100 | May 13, 2005

It's intelligent, well-acted and beautifully photographed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 12, 2005

A smoothly crafted, intermittently charming film . . . the dips and turns are predictable and the tense scenes surrounding unhinged or scheming Nazis have been done before.

Full Review | May 6, 2005

It's a film worth seeking out, a good fit for a rainy Saturday or any other less-than-bright day of the week.

| Original Score: B | Apr 18, 2005

This is the kind of material you expect to find in a Lifetime cable-channel movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2005

It's a cracking good yarn, well-told and impeccably acted, especially by Krl.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2005

A superior soap opera not unlike what Douglas Sirk might have churned out in the 1950s.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 3, 2004

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 2, 2004

This film is both enchanting and sad, with the Holocaust as a background element that eventually moves to the front of the storyline with painful inevitability.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 29, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2004

Its old-fashioned romanticism is heady, and the relationships among the characters are intriguing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2004

Director/co-writer Rlf Schbel's tight, philosophically sound narrative shows the essential relation of nationalist offenses to personal demons like lust, envy and blind resentment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2004

Despite the movie's occasional overripe charm, it's hard to see Gloomy Sunday as anything more than handsomely crafted cheese.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2004