Murnau really was a visionary and I do see what made him such a talent...

| Feb 9, 2023

The story is told in a flowing, lyrical German manner that is extraordinarily sensual, yet is perhaps too self-conscious, too fable-like for American audiences.

| Jul 28, 2022

Innovative through technology and development which will, without a doubt, be echoed in films yet to come. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 1, 2022

The visual poetry it expended on an admittedly simple, cornball story (country bumpkin seduced by city vamp, pursued and redeemed by his pure-hearted wife) remains fairly dazzling.

| Jan 8, 2022

I like that the film wasn't overly reliant on intertitles. Murnau let his actors tell the story. The actors are masters of silent film acting which at times is a little cheesy but works within the medium.

| Apr 1, 2021

Any one who prefers an intelligent and stimulating film to the usual trash is urged to go and see it for himself.

| Sep 4, 2020

One of the most moving and technically sound films ever produced.

| Aug 5, 2020

This partly expressionistic masterwork is often considered one of the greatest of all silent films.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 30, 2020

Not since the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the Last Laugh, those two European products of cinema art, has the screen offered anything that is even remotely comparable to Sunrise, from any or all angles.

| Feb 6, 2020

From two points of view, Sunrise is among the most remarkable films that have ever been flashed on the screen. One is the rich, sensitive beauty of the photography; the other the tragic tenseness of the story.

| Feb 6, 2020

The dramatic might of the Fox film, Sunrise.. lies in the severe simplicity of its fascinating plot.

| Feb 6, 2020

An extraordinary blending of the figurative, the imaginative, and the real.

| Feb 6, 2020

Without the need to play his story out in a thoroughly realised reality, Murnau uses illusion and the poetry of his medium to communicate the themes of his modernist fable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 1, 2019

Murnau's imaginative vision of the crazy world of the capital... is reflected on lively and at times incredible images that are plagued with humor and a certain cruelty. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2019

There is nothing so very original about this rather sentimental plot, but the manner of its presentation is a welcome innovation.

| May 8, 2018

The film is electric: overwhelmingly passionate and sexual.

| Dec 20, 2017

Ninety years on, "Sunrise" still packs a wallop, technically, even if its storyline is a tad melodramatic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2017

A movie in which every single moment is exactly right.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 3, 2014

It's the brilliant imagery and ground-breaking techniques that make it such a timeless achievement.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 18, 2014

If you need an introduction to silent cinema, F.W. Murnau's 1927 milestone remains a piercingly direct universal drama.

| Feb 25, 2014