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

  • 100
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    One of the best war movies ever made, Downfall is a powerful and artistically masterful re-creation of the last days of the Third Reich. Read full review

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The first great Hitler movie. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Against the overarching facts of his personal magnetism and the blind loyalty of his lieutenants, the movie observes the workings of the world within the bunker. All power flowed from Hitler. He was evil, mad, ill, but long after Hitler's war was lost he continued to wage it in fantasy. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    From the very first seconds a viewer believes totally in Downfall. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Not so much a Hitler movie as a portrait of a totalitarian machine's spiritual and emotional collapse, Downfall is a cumulatively powerful Goetterdammerung centered on the last 10 days of the bunkered Fuehrer and those around him. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Powerfully disturbing. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The reality it confronts is so gripping, we cannot turn away. This may not be the most sophisticated retelling of what happened while Berlin burned, but what a story it is. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    If I respect Downfall more than I was enthralled by it, that's because its portayal stops short of revelation. Once you witness Hitler's denial, the film has little more to say about him. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    It is fascinating without being especially illuminating, and it holds your attention for its very long running time without delivering much dramatic or emotional satisfaction in the end. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Intriguing, oddly banal and ultimately deflating. Read full review

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