Konchalovsky's latest masterwork is a pervasive scream of anguish from the not-too-distant past.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2019

Avoiding dramatizations and effects, Konchalovsky molds a movie that works as an awkward reminder of the greatest misfortune of our recent past. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 5, 2019

... incapable to give a proper sequence to a few good ideas, allowing both the tedium and the disorganization to circumscribe a plot that brusquely decays half-way.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2019

Using documentary-style interviewing techniques and three narrators, Konchalovsky's work brings to mind well-known literary naturalists like Jack London and Stephen Crane.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 17, 2018

... [director Andrey Konchalovskiy's] visual restlessness has no limits... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2017

The director introduces an interesting framing device, interviewing his main characters dressed in plain clothes and facing a camera, the full significance of this reality-show type setup only becoming apparent at the end of the film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2017

Paradise is a melodrama with a Holocaust setting that is undermined by its gimmickry. The film seems facile to the point of offense.

| Nov 17, 2017

I found it an absorbing, if challenging, exploration of memories that are fading fast.

| Nov 17, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2017

Black-and-white cinematography and minimalist sound design contribute to the bleak, austere tone, which befits the theme of survival in a morally bankrupt world.

| Nov 16, 2017

Konchalovskiy presents this grimly contemplative tale appropriately in black and white, drawing powerful performances from all three principals, especially Yuliya Vysotskaya as Olga.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 16, 2017

"Paradise" and its predictable waltz of suffering, choked consciousness and monstrosity adds little to the problematic subset of camp-themed World War II movies, which feel like nostalgia for hell.

| Oct 12, 2017

Stylishly shot in black-and-white, well-acted, and unflinchingly grim, but it's exhausting, overlong, and ultimately underwhelming.

| Original Score: 5.91/10 | Oct 7, 2017

A strikingly shot Holocaust drama that ultimately seems confused about whose story it's telling or to what end.

| Oct 5, 2017

Andrei Konchalovsky's film is more than an exercise, as pitiless moments accumulate with enraged relentlessness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2017

Above all else, what makes Paradise a brilliant study on human motivation is its candor. It doesn't intend to judge these individuals. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2017

A look at the degradation of both men and women under the folly of Nazism, a Holocaust film with more than a few traces of creative originality.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 3, 2017

... strong performances and outstanding cinematography aren't enough to rescue an unfocused and episodic screenplay, which will leave many stranded in a purgatorial cinematic-halfway house between bliss and despair.

| Oct 2, 2017

The beautiful black and white cinematography of Alexander Simonov and the meticulous and careful framing of the shots makes Paradise visually sumptuous - perhaps too much so.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2017

Konchalovskiy's tale captures the banality of evil, presents it as contemporary, as human.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 22, 2017