With his slightly cleft lip and modest speech impediment, Rogowski is an offbeat leading actor, but those "flaws" somehow only heighten his slightly edgy yet vulnerable appeal.

| Oct 15, 2020

I find the performances from Franz Rogowski, Sandra Hüller and Peter Kurth very accurate, especially when they communicate things like introspection, confidence, loneliness and affection. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 29, 2020

Their long looks, stolen glances and small kind gestures make the world of the supermarket bearable and a little brighter.

| Jan 29, 2020

It is a subtle celebration of the concept of the "work family," or the forming of meaningful bonds through the virtue of work, no matter how myopic that work may seem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2019

In the Aisles scrutinizes work friendships with a keen sense of how they evolve from clipped, polite niceties to inside jokes and private confidences.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2019

I was shocked by how much I got invested in the world of learning how to use a forklift.

| Oct 1, 2019

A portrait of life after hours in a warehouse supermarket that illustrates the way of tenderness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2019

A good cast tries hard, but for a story that finds its origin in short fiction, there's no excuse for letting this run on for over two hours.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2019

In the Aisles has just the softest breath of a plot, but director Thomas Stuber paints a mesmerizing portrait of the grocery store's weird night kingdom and the surrounding community looking the worse for wear, post-reunification.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 11, 2019

A workplace drama without much drama but a touching romance.

| Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2019

The fragrance of the everyday rises without perfume.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 28, 2019

The film's several layers hold one's attention, from the chemistry between Christian and Marion to character developments both tragic and otherwise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2019

A surprisingly deep slice-of-life about the trials of working-class monotony...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2019

Like a humble gift, "In the Aisles" makes up for its lack of opulence with quotidian magic.

| Jun 20, 2019

The stars, it must be said, are slightly more interesting than the characters, which is another way of saying Rogowski and Huller amplify what's there on the page.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2019

Stuber... is adept at evoking both the ache of unanswered longing and the tiny promise of redemption that flickers still within the human spirit, even when crushed under the weight of soulless drudgery.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2019

Before an inexpressible and unreachable reality of moral unrest, Stuber's film offers a breath of freshness and a poetic impulse. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 17, 2019

...the script doesn't seem terribly interested in its characters, instead focusing on the repetitive tasks that the workers do each day.

| Jun 17, 2019

In the Aisles takes audiences deep into the emotional lives of people who seem destined to hover on the periphery and highlights the beauty to be found there if one bothers to look.

| Jun 15, 2019

There is a gentle, fable-like aura in Thomas Stuber's In The Aisles, which finds beauty and glimmers of hope in the drab and mind-numbingly symmetrical corridors of a German wholesale supermarket.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2019