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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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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jul 2018

Filmed in black and white in the wintry countryside of Görlitz, Germany, Schwentke’s vision of a man who would be posthumously named the…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 24 Jul 2018

The central premise is arresting, as is the style, but there's a lot more that could have been done with it than just show how one ill-defined…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 21 Jul 2018

A stunning look at how the right overcoat can turn a schlemiel into a respected leader…

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By Henk H (2) on 27 Apr 2018

Excellent movie that guarantees a restless night after an almost two hour long quest into the human psyche…

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