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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    It's intelligent, provocative and intensely dramatic. Its subject matter may be tough but it is as powerfully authentic as anyone could want. Read full review

  • 100
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    That the film manages to be understated, calm and intelligent in spite of its wrenching subject matter is perhaps its most impressive accomplishment. In avoiding sensationalism, it feels very close to the truth. Read full review

  • 90
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    A distinctive achievement, a World War II movie unlike any other and one of the few films ever to address a topic that makes almost everyone want to look away: What happens to women in wartime. Read full review

  • 78
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    A Woman in Berlin is like a tour through the blast-cratered psyche of two colliding cultures, each with its own nightmarish tales to tell or acts of violence to experience. Read full review

  • 75
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Joins such wonderful recent films as "The Lives of Others" and "The Baader Meinhof Complex" as a clear-eyed portrait of a highly charged chapter in Germany's history, a history that once again proves rewarding fodder for an alert artistic imagination. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Walter Addiego

    A harrowing story about the will to survive amid the most brutal conditions imaginable. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The film is well-acted, with restraint, by Hoss and Sidikhin. The writer and director, Max Faerberboeck, employs a level gaze and avoids for the most part artificial sentimentality. The physical production is convincing. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    The film ends up relying on stating a basic situation over and over rather than developing any sort of dramatic story concerning recognizable human beings, at least until things get moving a little faster in its second hour. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Eddie Cockrell

    A stately, intermittently gripping, ultimately overlong drama. Read full review

  • 40
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Unfortunately, Frberbck never gives us reason enough to sit through such unremitting punishment. Though the story is based in truth, an emotionally removed Hoss feels more like a symbol than an actual person, while her detached narration keeps us at further remove. Read full review

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