Gebbe's film never loses its choke-hold and will have you squirming uncomfortably until its final frames.

| Aug 30, 2019

Nothing Bad Can Happen is a film with a simplistic, overdone message surrounded by nihilistic garbage.

| Original Score: 3.9/10 | Jun 18, 2019

This film is beautiful, haunting, and downright disturbing.

| Aug 21, 2018

Nothing Bad Can Happen is one of the smartest, most heartbreaking films of the year. Gebbe has meticulously crafted a film that knows exactly what it is, what it needs to say, and what it wants from its audience.

| Mar 17, 2017

It may seem counterintuitive, but at some point the horrors become so heinous that you almost have to believe in God for any of it to make sense.

| Original Score: B | Mar 7, 2016

Nothing Bad Can Happen examines modern faith in a way few films do.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jul 31, 2014

Gebbe elicits strong performances from her actors and succeeds in inspiring a certain sick fascination with the material, yet the film's oppressive unpleasantness yields no new insights into psychology or religious faith.

| Jul 7, 2014

Pitting good against evil with striking intelligence and a near-operatic commitment to extreme suffering, Ms. Gebbe neither mocks nor celebrates Tore's love for his God.

| Jul 3, 2014

Writer-director Katrin Gebbe rubs viewers' faces in this dog dish of a film, with the promise that some sliver of transcendence will redeem it. But it's all dog dish.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 1, 2014

Ultimately, this is a film that asks deep questions but offers somewhat shallow answers.

| Original Score: B | Jun 27, 2014

The film has a lyrical visual palette, almost like a bad memory, and Gebbe draws very strong performances from her cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2014

If you choose to go see it, you can make up your own mind. By the third act, however, you might wish that you had stayed home.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 26, 2014

Gebbe appears to be a misanthrope who subjects her male protagonist to senseless cruelty.

| Jun 26, 2014

Its world is so remote, its characters behavior so unexplained - despite the fact that the film is based on true events - that our connection to the story slackens significantly over time.

| Jun 26, 2014

A revenge flick where the hero refuses vengeance. We want that catharsis, but if Tore ever stopped turning the other cheek, he'd lose the only thing he has left: forgiveness

| Original Score: A+ | Jun 26, 2014

The Passion of the German Runaway.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 26, 2014

...evocative of Lars von Trier's similarly unflinching Dogville and equally bound to start some conversations among those willing to stomach it.

| Jun 25, 2014

One of the most enraging films to come around in some time, a picture of very real, uncompromisingly savage horrors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2014

A film so comprehensively miscalculated in its desire to be a batshit think piece that it potentially creates a new category of offense.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 22, 2014

... an amazingly sure-footed feature from first-time director Katrin Gebbe.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 1, 2014