It is an absolute treasure to see and inspires its viewers to return to the literature of this lauded thinker.

| Jan 14, 2021

Von Trotta, however, smartly focuses on a brief, pivotal moment in Arendt's career...

| Mar 24, 2020

This all may sound all very heavy, but it is important to also point out that Hannah Arendt is also a good movie.

| Sep 26, 2017

Hannah Arendt is ultimately a pleasure, because Sukowa plays the most forbidding of intellectuals as a fabulous, passionate doll.

| Dec 31, 2015

It's refreshing to find a film inspired by challenging ideas, and Von Trotta and her team are to be congratulated for bringing Arendt's story to the screen

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2014

Sukowa is a supple and brave actress; getting inside Arendt's arguments is the hardest and if the film only succeeds sometimes, that is still a major achievement. Very few films in this era would have dared.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2014

Von Trotta's style is pretty stolid. She aims for documentary thoroughness rather than exhilarating drama. Nonetheless, it's good to see a film that gets its narrative charge from the ferment of intellectual debate. It's a rare breed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2014

Arendt, through the film's glamorizing lens, becomes a character impossible not to identify or agree with.

| Nov 4, 2013

Barbara Sukowa delivers a beautifully modulated performance, showing the rigor of Arendt's thought and convictions while revealing the contours of a passionate woman with complex relationships.

| Oct 11, 2013

[Barbara Sukowa] invests Arendt with a steely fury, but the film, set during and after the 1961 trial of ex--Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, has an entertaining cocktail-banter superficiality.

| Original Score: B | Oct 4, 2013

The banality of evil is examined in this solid and intelligent account of Arendt's controversial conclusions on the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2013

This is an interesting film about ideas, and how explosive they can be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2013

A trivial take on a profound thinker.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2013

Hannah Arendt's problem is the evil of banality: the gnawing away of drama by platitude and pedestrian mise-en-scène.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2013

Von Trotta's direction is assured and the film has an incredibly strong performance at its core, and it asks a number of important questions, even though it doesn't dare to answer them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2013

Like A Hidden Method, David Cronenberg's drama about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Hannah Arendt takes seriously the life of the mind.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2013

In an era of sleepwalking surrender, "Hannah Arendt" is a welcome wake-up call, a ringing reminder that warring forces first assemble on the battlefield of conscience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2013

Balanced portrayal, makes a persuasive case that Arendt was a valuable voice, whose dedicated work in trying to unravel the causes of Europe's moral collapse was worthy of study and consideration.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2013

A film that ultimately says more about banality than evil.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 4, 2013

[A] moving examination of the limits of human understanding when confronted with evil.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2013