By dint of the fact that Rimini showcases such a vast gulf between performance and direction, Seidl’s return to fictional filmmaking is, if nothing else, hugely interesting.

| Nov 7, 2023

Having found his subject in Ricky Bravo and his perfect incarnation in Michael Thomas, [Ulrich Seidl] is content merely to stay with him, observing and recording his amiably unsuccessful life.

| Sep 19, 2023

A film about decadence in a phantasmagoric world where racism is still present. [Full review in spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2023

Seidl observes the shadows of his country –and of Europe in this recent journey– without the glamor suit. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 20, 2023

This acerbic Dolce Vita is not an easy film to watch, but worth the effort as it is a brutal and insolent viewing experience. Seidl can still hurt with his ferocious filmmaking style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2023

It’s worth your time, your discomfort, your possible scorn and your weirdly grudging affection, maybe all at once.

| Mar 31, 2023

A non-place out of season that Seidl portrays almost as a floating abstraction, seedy and dying, in the midst of a strange haze... [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 24, 2023

A blisteringly funny and often touching film about people struggling towards happiness despite having experienced lifetimes of disappointment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 17, 2023

We know there’s great tragedy and ugliness behind the smoke and mirrors, but we watch in amusement nonetheless. Sinisterly, Seidl reminds us how easy it is to turn people into objects for the taking.

| Mar 16, 2023

A well-acted, honest and heartbreaking character study filled with melancholy.

| Mar 14, 2023

Another pitch-black comedy from Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl. His usual unblinking approach creates a character study that's impossible to look away from, with settings and people that have almost unnervingly documentary-style authenticity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2023

Seidl builds a fascinating film, albeit with a rather controversial and debatable conclusion, which in any case doesn't ruin the story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2022

The spectacle of Richie slouching almost daintily on his Toad of Toad Hall legs past Rimini's mist-shrouded shore and liminal spaces carries metaphorical weight: he’s a monument to selfishness and fraudulence in an entropic Europe.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 12, 2022

The slight softening of the trademark Seidl savagery... tips the balance of the film from tragic to comic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2022

It’s impeccably performed, but with a dash of corn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2022

While it’s beautifully shot, it’s a comedy drama which lives or dies by the performance of Thomas, and he’s magnificently terrible.

| Dec 9, 2022

In his new fiction, Ulrich Seidl proves that he hasn't lost an ounce of talent in presenting the cruel and corrosive social satire that's prevalent in all his documentaries... [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 21, 2022

“Rimini” is a grim, occasionally funny examination of Richie, with a cringingly committed performance by Thomas.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 11, 2022

The film fleshes out the perhaps familiar characterizations at its center by tying contemporary wounds to the persistent presence of Europe’s ugly history.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2022

Seidls trenchant portrait of a tragic figure celebrates its own unflinching gaze, courtesy of a director whose societal vivisections come with chilling precision and calculated misanthropy.

| Feb 22, 2022