[Cate] Shortland get[s] up close and personal with intimate, handheld camerawork as Lore confronts what she’s been taught and her family’s legacy of fascism and genocide, blue eyes popping with judgment, hate, fear, confusion, and, finally, resolve.

| Jul 28, 2024

Lore is a movie that rewards patience.

| Feb 27, 2024

A film you simply don't want to miss.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

Cate Shortland's tough, moving film is shot with great intimacy, driving home the idea that great horrors are ultimately a personal responsibility.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2018

Shortland has created a moving, intriguing and complex film, which provides one of the most intelligent and honest approaches to both Nazism and the holocaust seen on screen in recent years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

A raw, urgent yet contemplative tone infuses every moment and, courtesy of cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, Shortland uses the country's foggy, murky landscape to stunning effect.

| Jul 20, 2018

The portrait that emerges proves, above all else, one of resilience and adaptability.

| Jul 20, 2017

Lore's textures and colors evoke equal parts wonder and horror.

| Oct 7, 2016

Remarkable. Raw, disorienting and it never bothers to tell you what it can instead show.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

Cate Shortland infuses a fresh perspective and a haunting moral quandary to the WWII genre, bringing a little seen part of human history to chilling life.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 20, 2014

Rosendahl puts the onslaught of horror and absurdity in poignant perspective with her limpid depiction of her character's growing resourcefulness and awareness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2014

Lore, from Australian director Cate Shortland, proceeds like a long-ago fairy tale, dark-hued, grounded in real-life 20th-century horrors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2014

Lore is a akin to a bourgeois German version of Elem Klimov's 1985 Belarus-set Come and See, and it has some outstanding features. The star turn is the lurking cinematography of Adam Arkapaw.

| Jan 1, 2014

The deep-feeling Rosendahl makes a major impression as an intelligent girl learning the power of her sexuality and resolve under maximum stress.

| Jan 1, 2014

Shortland may not leave us with certainty, but in the context of so bloody a conflict fueled by intransigence and misguided idealism, the hope and the beauty of Lore is only strengthened by its embrace of youthful uncertainty.

| Original Score: A | Jan 1, 2014

The Australian director Cate Shortland has made a quite stunning film about the collapse of Nazi Germany, seen not from a Berlin bunker but through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2014

The dream of every director tasked with bringing such a difficult story to life is to have a star who can carry the drama, and in her feature debut, Rosendahl is a revelation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2014

The bleak backdrop is rendered with great beauty-so much so that perhaps the sensory poetics of the visuals linger beyond their darker implications.

| Nov 5, 2013

It's this mature take on the subject matter that makes Lore the finest Australian film of the year.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 17, 2013

We see no fighting and no high-level participants -- just ordinary people before a backdrop of natural beauty and manmade horror.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2013