Rosenstrasse delivers a blow to the arguments of those who claim that the crimes of the Nazis expressed the will of the German people.

| Feb 15, 2021

In spite of some manipulation and improbability, Rosenstrasse made me feel good for a good, historical reason, and it didn't minimize anyone's suffering in the process.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2006

Lena became a foster mother to Ruth for several years, but for all the interest von Trotta puts into that story, Lena might as well have been asked to catsit.

| Sep 16, 2005

This story is inherently dramatic enough to stand on its own, but von Trotta throws it off-kilter by framing her film within a dead-end, modern subplot.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2005

While most of Rosenstrasse is set in World War II, there are present-day, flash-forward sequences that are considerably less involving. Actually, they're so dull that they drag the entire movie to a screeching halt.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 24, 2004

The film is anchored in particular by the dual performances of Schade as the 90-year-old Lena and the magnificent Riemann as her younger counterpart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2004

True story of one of the few attempts by Germans to launch protests against the Nazi dictatorship.

| Dec 13, 2004

Not uninteresting, and it is very nicely performed, although you'll strain to learn from the movie the history on which it is based and struggle futilely to get inside the motivations of its characters.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 12, 2004

The movie's disjointed flow makes it hard to watch the story unfold.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2004

Has the never-ending wave of less-than-essential Holocaust movies begun to reduce the most horrific episode of the 20th Century to the level of just another genre?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 15, 2004

Succeeds as a testament to the power of love and, in particular, as a tribute to brave women.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2004

A solid, thoughtful, involving drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2004

The episode...is a fascinating one, and potentially the stuff of powerful drama. But von Trotta blunts the impact.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 25, 2004

A Holocaust drama that proves it's possible to make a minor movie about a major subject.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Oct 22, 2004

Lampe, Schrader and Riemann all do the best they can, but this film sinks under weight of the clunky screenplay by von Trotta and Pamela Katz.

| Oct 19, 2004

I couldn't get past the modern-day interruptions to get to the heart of this story.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 15, 2004

The film opens a window into the fact that not all good Germans were cowed during those dark times.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 14, 2004

The incidents at Rosenstrasse deserve a good movie, but Rosenstrasse is not it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 14, 2004

Some of the choices made here are more befitting a Lifetime movie of the week.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2004

It's a very intimate, personal drama for three women whose lives are entwined in unexpected ways, and a true pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2004