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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Drawn from Rabe's diaries, the film is rich in telling and ironic details. Read full review
The acting is immaculate; the editing is seamless; the imagery is blunt. Read full review
Thanks to Tukur, what we get here is still something: a stunning portrait of a good man caught in a widening inferno. Read full review
The 134-minute film jams in much information, incidents and characters without losing any entertainment value. And, fortunately, its heroism isn't pumped up or glorified. Read full review
In spite of a subtle performance by Ulrich Tukur in the eponymous role, Gallenberger's film feels labored and emotionally disengaged, an autumn-hued history lesson that's as studiously reserved as its steel-spined subject. Read full review
The fine supporting cast includes Steve Buscemi, as a cynical American doctor who at first doesn't get along with Rabe; and Anne Consigny, as the French head of a local school for Chinese girls. Read full review
Despite the emotive subject matter, picture is often too sluggish dramatically, and never knits together its stock Western characters into a satisfying whole. Read full review
John Rabe, has its visceral moments. But it is also burdened by manipulative clichs of a screenplay in which exposition outweighs character development. Inspired by Rabe's diaries, from which short excerpts are read, it tells the story almost exclusively from a Western point of view. Read full review
It's a remarkable story, and filmmaker Florian Gallenberger does his best to shade his portrait with complications and mitigations. But for a story not often told, John Rabe feels awfully familiar. Read full review
Proudly matter-of-fact but, sadly, far from gripping. Read full review