The slow creep of the camera mirrors the incremental build in pressure; this is the kind of tension that feels like a tightening chokehold on the audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2022

A storyline that is both unconvincing in itself and terminated by a sudden and empty denouement.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2022

[A] sticky, stop-start drama set in the exacting, pressurised realm of classical music.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2022

There is little exposition, everything just unfolds in series of scenes sometimes quiet, sometimes unexpected, until the dramatic ending, but it is a complex portrait and Nina Hoss holds us in her power throughout.

| Oct 6, 2021

The Audition is a complicated well-acted web. The lesson here is that you cannot ask others to fulfill your dreams.

| Oct 6, 2021

Nina Hoss gives a stunning performance in The Audition.

| Oct 6, 2021

The Audition, a second collaboration between German director Ina Weisse and co-screenwriter Daphne Charizani, is a wonderfully rich, nonjudgmental character-driven drama...

| Oct 6, 2021

Whether she is accurate in how she sees herself depends on each viewer's perspective. Either way, the cinematic journey is dark and compelling.

| Oct 6, 2021

Weisse's light-touch direction that the film doesn't reveal itself in its entirety until its closing scenes.

| Oct 6, 2021

A symphony of conflict, emotion, and release...

| Oct 6, 2021

The type of art film we've been waiting for. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 11, 2021

Director Nina Weisse has deftly managed a very complex web of emotions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 19, 2020

Ina Weisse's film The Audition is a holy artifact from a bygone era...

| Jul 10, 2020

It is a complicatedly surprising story with a considerable queasy punch, and a perfect showcase for the always-impressive Hoss.

| Jul 2, 2020

Audition would definitely be in a minor key if it weren't for Hoss's well-modulated emotional outbursts and physical reactions. There is plenty of Bach to be heard on the soundtrack but film's female star is the one who keeps everything in tune.

| Jul 2, 2020

"The Audition" may not have the same lingering resonance, but like those earlier pictures, it's a showcase for a performer who erases the distinction between impeccable technique and raw feeling.

| Jun 27, 2020

Eventually, these feelings spin the film's main character out-of-control into a truly baffling conclusion that feels neither right nor earned.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 26, 2020

The story ... is not nearly as focused as the protagonist...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2020

A treat that becomes a chilling enthrallment, one of those closely observed dramas you love -- for its intimacy, calm authority and mystery -- even before you begin to get what it's really about.

| Jun 25, 2020

Hoss's work is impeccable and illuminating, and the movie's foursquare, frank, brisk approach is salutary. But its final scenes lean into triteness and frustrating evasiveness...

| Jun 25, 2020