It is definitely one of the most remarkable German-language films ever made.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

This Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film expertly blends two popular types of movies to create one seamless motion picture experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 31, 2021

Link's movie is an absorbing tale of cultural displacement and adjustment. It's also a remarkably complex examination of a marriage.

| Mar 9, 2018

plods through new terrain in Holocaust related subject matter with a shotgun mentality

| Original Score: C | Apr 5, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Very moving, well-written, and better-acted, but bitterly realistic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Those who missed Nowhere in Africa in theaters (no small number, most likely) will find it just as compelling on the small screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 29, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Nowhere in Africa is long enough that each character is meticulously studied and developed while Link takes the time also to provide wonderfully patient, artistic moments

| Original Score: 3.5 | Mar 24, 2005

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Una buena historia para decir un par de cosas sobre el desarraigo, los lazos familiares, y la chance de empezar una nueva vida siempre que sea necesario.

| Jan 8, 2004

A pretty but unsatisfying trifle, its graceful camerawork and fine acting unable to make an oddly flat story shine.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2003

The acting is wonderful throughout, and director Carole Link has crafted a tale with the dramatic scope of a great epic. The English Patient comes to mind.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Oct 24, 2003

Caroline Link's Oscar winning film has sweeping theme music, stunning cinematography and a well-told story that offers a unique slice of history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2003

An epic story that deeply explores the lives of Jewish expatriots during World War II.

| Original Score: B | Oct 22, 2003

Writer-director Caroline Link adapted Stefanie Zweig's expatriate memoir gracefully, languidly and with full understanding of its heroine.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2003

Excellent.

| Original Score: A | Aug 8, 2003

While Roman Polanski's The Pianist may be the most shattering film to deal with the Holocaust, Nowhere in Africa may well be the most human.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 6, 2003

Merely watchable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2003