The subtle, multi-layered performance by Nina Hoss fuels the film with even more contradictions, but only on the level of emotional alignment: the plot is univocally clear when it comes to who wins and who loses in the game of love.

| Original Score: 85/100 | Nov 24, 2023

Jerichow once more reveals Petzold as a filmmaker who makes subtle turns of plot and layered characterizations, accompanied by predictably nuanced performances, out of otherwise conventional tropes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Petzold doesn't translate familiar stories to the screen so much as he climbs deep inside of them and digs out their hearts.

| Jun 11, 2021

...an erratic yet ultimately rewarding little drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 6, 2020

A compelling and intelligently crafted thriller.

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

The visually aggressive scenes and long silences are part of [Christian] Petzold's style and the director knows how to get the most out of them. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2018

An expertly constructed thriller that never rises above the trappings of its genre.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Nov 17, 2011

A well-crafted and well-acted reworking of the classic noir film The Postman Always Rings Twice.

| Original Score: B | Nov 10, 2009

Petzoid takes the Cain themes of lust and duplicity and twists them into a reflection on modern Germany, where nationalism and loyalties and identity and economics are jumbled and thrown into confusion.

| Sep 10, 2009

Isn't startlingly new, but it's a nice twist on a familiar formula, and should satisfy anyone who wants to see the postman, as it were, ring yet again.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 28, 2009

A taut, German-made thriller, Jerichow adds a bit of European xenophobia to the pulp traditions of passion and betrayal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2009

Jerichow is not the masterfully complex work that Yella* was, but it's very tightly constructed and made, showing in some ways Peltzold's maturity as a filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2009

This is a movie made by and for adults, and adults should consider seeing it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2009

This swift, skillful film builds to a closing image that leaves you with what they call the wow factor on Top Chef not just because the finale is so shocking but because it is also so shockingly inevitable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2009

This is silly romance. It's sillier suspense. But I'm not above saying I enjoyed it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 3, 2009

It's easy to compare Jerichow with the films of The Postman Always Rings Twice, with the grimy gas station owner, the sexy wife and the rugged drifter, but people have a way of not behaving according to their superficial qualities.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2009

So compact and controlled is this fine film.

| May 26, 2009

How do you say 'Three's a crowd' auf Deutsch?

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 18, 2009

The ironic denouement doesn't match the fever pitch of the build up. But . . .the walls of Jerichow fall down just from the heat Fürmann and Hoss generate.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 16, 2009

A taut, character-driven and intelligently crafted thriller with a strong and radiant performance by Nina Hoss.

| Original Score: 8.25/10 | May 16, 2009