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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 14 Aug 2018

Robert Schwentke's The Captain may be one of the most depressing films of the season - amid stiff competition - but it provides food for thought…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Brightest Young Things (103) on 09 Aug 2018

This dark drama might be too much for audiences, so Schwentke adds two crucial elements to keep his film tolerable: elegant black and white…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 Aug 2018

Schwentke’s grim history lesson carries an undeniable propulsiveness. But it’s ultimately too ugly a story to be truly resonant…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 Aug 2018

Does the man make the uniform, or does the uniform make the man? Schwentke's conclusion is as dark as you may fear…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Aug 2018

The movie’s an artfully sustained guessing game, tense and rarely dull…

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By Ignacio Navarro (26) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 06 Aug 2018

[Director Robert] Schwentke and his team maintain a great fluidity, harmonizing an ensemble whose parts…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 02 Aug 2018

Although its larger point about fascist idealogues is somewhat muddled, this black-and-white historical drama is both audacious and intriguing…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 01 Aug 2018

Each hostile gesture, each harsh act suggests not just timelessness but cruel timeliness…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR's All Things Considered (7) on 01 Aug 2018

Shooting in black and white, [Schwentke has] created an unnervingly persuasive portrait of deception gone haywire in a world gone mad…

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By Lisa Jo Sagolla (12) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Aug 2018

Schwentke’s delectable drama is ultimately a keen indictment of the stereotypical German affinity for efficiency and the sense of community…

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By Bradley Gibson (126) for Film Threat (5,156) on 27 Jul 2018

The film-craft is high quality, with the passion and care taken evident…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Jul 2018

Few and far between are the movies...that actually implicate modern viewers in the evil, which is precisely what makes The Captain such a remarkable…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 Jul 2018

Outlandish as its action often is, The Captain is based on a true story…

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By Josh Martin (34) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 26 Jul 2018

The Captain's philosophies are rudimentary at best and recycled at worst, with an added emphasis on the animalistic instincts that we've all…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Jul 2018

The Captain, Robert Schwentke’s harrowing World War II psychodrama, isn’t what you would call enjoyable, exactly…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 25 Jul 2018

Schwentke intends for these actions to parallel what Wehrmacht participated in against Jews and Roma ...This astute film is an excoriating…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jul 2018

The film is consistently beautiful to look at in an “industrial metal album cover” kind of way, pairing dimly lit, black-and-white cinematography…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 25 Jul 2018

It’s too bleak to laugh at and too absurd to cry over. That it’s true adds another insanity-inducing element…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jul 2018

In one fashion, Robert Schwentke proves to be too complicit with his protagonist, regarding evil and human banality as stimulation…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 24 Jul 2018

From the start, he marks the film with the two polar extremes on which the film is organized: fabricated authenticity and simplistic irony…

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