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

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

Nina Hoss gives a stunning performance in The Audition.

| Oct 6, 2021

"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

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

With great clarity, the film conveys how discipline can be directed both inward and outward.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2020

Weisse's gripping, cool-blooded drama upends all manner of inspirational-educator clichés.

| Sep 26, 2019

Seen purely as a character study, this one works.

| Sep 19, 2019

The Audition is a compelling and haunting character study.

| Sep 14, 2019

Hits a few notes but doesn't strike a chord.

| Sep 9, 2019