One of the few films by the German Turkish director Fatih Akin that gets me hooked from start to finish. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 26, 2021

From its stunning opening sequence to its merciless fatalistic conclusion, this is directed with extraordinary confidence and maturity by the 32-year-old Fatih Akin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

A punky, noisy romance full of life and emotion and ideas that captures the moment in the style of contemporary classics such as My Beautiful Laundrette and Trainspotting.

| Apr 1, 2019

The storytelling rhythms can be a little jarring, almost like early Spike Lee, but this seems true to the disconnect of Cahit's and Sibel's lives.

| Feb 19, 2019

That this marriage of convenience between two cultural misfits will eventually lead to love may sound like a contrivance, but that's not at all the way it plays. Akin's raw, powerful, multileveled movie takes us places we never expected to go.

| Mar 13, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Beyond its pleasures as a good piece of storytelling, Head-On also provides some interesting commentary on the clash between different cultures.

| Mar 1, 2007

Ultimately more provocative than insightful.

| Original Score: B | Apr 10, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

A gloomy fairy-tale version of a Hollywood romantic film that barely gets past its gloomy outlook on life.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 5, 2005

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 20, 2005

(...) El punk no ha muerto, y esta pelcula es prueba de ello.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2005

A crash course in raw, visceral film-making . . . riding a gritty story and frenetically alive characters, Head-On is a cinematic rush.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2005

Teutonic despair hasn't looked this good since Fassbinder was in business.

| Jun 30, 2005

...[peppered] with a variety of needlessly self-conscious touches that serve only to distract the viewer from the sporadically intriguing storyline...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2005

not particularly original but it is often riveting enough to hold one's attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2005

The power of Akin's film, which is considerably aided by the two lead performances ... comes from the spectacle of people developing feelings for each other even through numbing layers of mutual narcissism, self-loathing and raging terror of intimacy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2005

Heartbreaking in the best way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2005

Violent and sexy and funny and sad.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2005