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
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