I'd be happier if I'd never laid eyes on it.

| Feb 21, 2020

Although psychological substance runs slim, Akin renders most mainstream depictions of degenerate minds lighthearted.

| Oct 3, 2019

This subject matter is of the heaviest variety, and its central character not one you're supposed to like. But it is a story with immense artistic merit and a new angle of this subgenre with something important to say.

| Oct 2, 2019

A bleak, depressing attempt to remove all glorification or justification from the serial killer subgenre.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2019

Another in a long line of serial-killer dramas under the impression that it needs to be as ugly as its subject in order to be authentic, ultimately serving as further proof that verisimilitude isn't a virtue in and of itself.

| Sep 26, 2019

This long slog through the gutter, from the first brutal murder to [Fritz] Honka's grisly yet comedic arrest, is a tough stroll that it's hard to recommend.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Filmmakers can have a tough time distinguishing themselves in the crowded serial-killer genre. For Fatih Akin, the director of "The Golden Glove," the solution seems to have been making his movie as vomitous as possible.

| Sep 26, 2019

And while that opening scene is undoubtedly shocking, the cumulative effect of all this despair is ultimately even more unsettling.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 24, 2019

Even hardcore Akin devotees should proceed with caution, and be ready for disillusionment. The craftsmanship is there. But Akin's judgment has gone AWOL, and with it, his heart.

| Feb 12, 2019

Dead from the moment it starts, and once you get used to the stink, there's nothing to do but wait for it to go away.

| Original Score: D | Feb 12, 2019

The film is technically accomplished. But there is something meagre and futile about it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2019

Aiming for stabs of morbid humor amid its relentless gutter-level horror, "The Golden Glove" instead takes on the flat, numbing quality of a particularly hardcore Punch-and-Judy show.

| Feb 12, 2019

On some level Fritz's story is compulsive viewing, only you wish you weren't there.

| Feb 12, 2019

Did The Golden Glove really have to be such a soul-sapping symphony of grimness? Based on a real-life killer who prowled the dive bars of Hamburg in the 1970s, there is not one frame of this film which isn't ugly.

| Feb 12, 2019