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

| Mar 31, 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

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

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

One of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s better but not quite best features in a pretty consistent career, not as scurrilously seedy as him at his worst, or as merciless, but not as ambitious or startlingly insightful as his best.

| Feb 13, 2022

A chilling parable about the sins of the father becoming the punishments of the son, and about the moral arc of the universe bending, across generations, toward the coldest justice imaginable.

| Feb 12, 2022

What gives Rimini its unifying comic vigour and pathos is the central performance by Michael Thomas...

| Feb 11, 2022

There is torment for everyone, including the audience. There is a kind of brilliance in it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2022