[Fatih Akin] weaves a laconic and serene web of characters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2020

Along with vivid depictions of a Turkey torn between the remnants of its ancient Eastern empire and a tantalizingly possible Western future, The Edge of Heaven will delight an opening-night crowd...

| May 26, 2020

There is a delicate beauty to it all. The missed connections tend to get maddening after a while, but Akin directs with a clear compassion for his characters and the cultures in which they live.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Akin has choreographed... a demonstration of how open borders close off other opportunities and, even in a surveillance culture, how easy it is to get lost.

| Feb 11, 2019

The subtlety of the film's architecture does not lie in the plot, but has to do with the moral fabric being spun, whose overall design may require a third installment, or at any rate a sequel, to carry the ethical weight.

| Mar 20, 2018

"The Edge of Heaven"'s intricate, almost melodramatic plot shamelessly employs coincidences-much the way "Babel" did-but where that movie's tragic events seemed gratuitous and strained, Akin has a richer, deeper sense of character.

| Feb 6, 2018

Much like one of Fassbinder's great ones.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 17, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 12, 2013

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

True to its title, The Edge of Heaven hangs uneasily between two spheres.

| Aug 15, 2011

Hanna Schygulla cuts through platitudes with a privately fierce, graceful sense of spiritual space

| Aug 25, 2009

Un drama sobre encuentros y desencuentros, azar y fatalidad, entre Alemania y Turquía. No carece de interés, pero le falta rigurosidad dramática.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2009

It isn't enough for director and writer Fatih Akin to show that we're all only a few degrees from each other across countries; rather, he's also interested in the level of connectedness.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 9, 2009

[It's] a much-needed maturation of the Babel/Crash formula but also fails to rattle your bones the way those movies did. Pick your poison, I suppose.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2008

He [director Fatih Akin] makes the random moments and chance encounters of life seem both utterly unpredictable and completely inevitable.

| Original Score: a- | Sep 5, 2008

What we don't suspect, going in, is that a film of such plain-speaking admonitions can exploit the element of surprise. Yet this heartfelt and precisely assembled drama does just that.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2008

Propelled by the beautiful camerawork and scenery that moves back and forth between pastoral idyll and urban chaos as it takes the viewer on a journey that ends with a final image as quiet and beautiful as any in recent cinema.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 5, 2008

Intricate emotionally as well as in narrative terms, poignant but not mawkish, and told in an austerely compelling style, this is a wise and absorbing drama.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 2, 2008

A transcendent film experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4A | Aug 22, 2008