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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungA heavy-handed reimagining.
- 50Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallThe paradox is that in modernising Berlin Alexanderplatz, Qurbani has created an ambitious but also stridently melodramatic moral parable that seems oddly dated.
- 50VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangAlthough promising a deep-cut dash of contemporary topicality by reimagining the main character as an undocumented African immigrant, there is the sense that the unimpeachable craft and performances — especially from rivetingly charismatic lead Welket Bungué — ultimately add up to just too slick a package.
- 50Film ThreatAlex SavelievFilm ThreatAlex SavelievBeautiful and atmospheric but essentially empty and pointless, Berlin Alexanderplatz hits you with the bluntness of a sledgehammer.
- 40The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldReinhold exerts a Svengali-like hold on Franz and the women they know, though the character’s questionable magnetism makes this dynamic increasingly baffling.