The Good German Critic Reviews

This is Soderbergh's show, and a haunting and hypnotic show it is.Read the full review

With a few self-conscious exceptions, Soderbergh makes an earnest attempt to return to that place and time in both history and American filmmaking, and his risk-taking pays fascinating dividends.Read the full review

Blanchett gets everything right -- the accent, her German dialogue, the weary sexuality (deliberately reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich) and the amorality her character has embraced.Read the full review

The leisure-time viewer will say, ''Hey, this is sort of like "Casablanca," so why play it again?''Read the full review

The Good German, Steven Soderbergh's film noir homage, is nearly perfect when it comes to style and tone, but it concentrates so single-mindedly on the mechanics of the narrative that it loses sight of its characters.Read the full review

Soderbergh's homage to film noir and wartime thrillers, is technically stunning but narratively and thematically hollow.Read the full review

For actor and director, the project seems like trying on a new coat, and it doesn't fit either of them.Read the full review

It does get mired in its obsession with its own style.Read the full review

Of The Good German, it can be said that the operation was a brilliant success, even if the patient is not merely dead but most sincerely dead. The movie, in other words, lies there as if on a slab in a morgue, while you admire the corpse for its beauty.Read the full review