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 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

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

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

Imagine a Kaurismaki with less humor and a slower pace, and you'll have a sense of how singular yet insubstantial "In the Aisles" ultimately appears.

| Jun 13, 2019

Stuber refuses to allow any action his protagonist Christian (Franz Rogowski) takes to truly go anywhere.

| Oct 10, 2018

In the Aisles is a poignant and richly sympathetic film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2018

A lyrical portrait of emotionally damaged misfits sharing a soulless working environment in contemporary East Germany, In the Aisles is full of tender observation and humane empathy for its downtrodden protagonists.

| Feb 24, 2018

We could spend forever watching two such interesting actors as Hüller and Rogowski glimmer at each other, his bashful hopefulness meeting her considering eyes, which are strangely serious however merry or mischievous her expression.

| Feb 24, 2018