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By Michelle Orange (458) for Virginia Quarterly Review (8) on 10 Sep 2017

Writer-director Maren Ade (Everyone Else) complicates her career woman, allowing her both cold-eyed pragmatism and very real potential for…

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By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

There's a lot more going on beneath the surface in this offbeat meditation on family, aging, the passage of time, and the meaning of happiness…

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By Diane Carson (151) for KDHX (St. Louis) (284) on 27 Aug 2017

Toni Erdmann is a film that surprises with its offbeat approach and its refusal to conform in its subject matter, its length, or its style…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 22 Aug 2017

By the end, it has become clear that director [Maren] Ade has more in mind than wringing cheap laughs out of a pair of false teeth…

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By Kathy Fennessy (88) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 17 Aug 2017

Toni Erdmann, the Oscar-nominated film from German filmmaker Maren Ade, is a farce, a tearjerker, and a bonkers take on globalization and its…

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By Dorothy Woodend (313) for The Tyee (British Columbia) (313) on 14 Aug 2017

Toni Erdmann calls to mind the idea of Saturnalia, a festival devoted to the necessity of upending societal structures…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE (Japan) (18) on 30 Jul 2017

An offbeat and sometimes off-putting German farce/drama hybrid that features a father-daughter pair that are two of the most fully realized…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 15 Jun 2017

Toni Erdmann finds comedy in the depths of despair and vice versa, never hinting what's coming next…

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Saporta Report (Atlanta) (228) on 14 Jun 2017

An absurdist dark comedy with a thoughtful subtext, Maren Ade's German comedy is both seriously silly and, well, seriously serious…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 May 2017

An old-fashioned father-daughter story grafted onto a none-too-subtle critique of the corporatization of Europe and the brutally hectic nature…

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By Rick Kisonak (485) for Seven Days (657) on 06 Apr 2017

If I could grant Maren Ade's third feature the rating it deserves, its title would be followed not by five stars but by a constellation…

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By Francine Prose (12) for The New York Review of Books (223) on 27 Mar 2017

Every performance in Toni Erdmann, particularly those of Simonischek and Hüller, is spectacular, and we register the actors' skill at the…

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By Dan Webster (147) for Spokesman-Review (Washington) (147) on 15 Mar 2017

Whatever Ade's intentions, her Toni Erdmann does achieve this: Syd Field or no, it offers American moviegoers a reminder of the many different…

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By Marie Asner (63) for Phantom Tollbooth (102) on 10 Mar 2017

Toni Erdmann is 40 minutes too long, period…

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By Lamorna Ash (3) for Another Gaze (53) on 10 Mar 2017

Though the film is ostensibly a critique of the global corporations that Ines's consultancy is modeled on, Ade does not dictate how the audience…

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By Juan Carlos Ugarelli (4) for Cinencuentro (218) on 09 Mar 2017

It's one of the best comedies in recent years, being intelligent, disconcerting and poignant at the same time. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 09 Mar 2017

Toni Erdmann is ostensibly a comedy-drama, but that catch-all label doesn't even begin to cover its idiosyncratic tone, in which the comedy…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Mar 2017

Toni Erdmann is so loaded with show-stopping sequences and contradictory tones that it's hard to know where to start, but I doubt anyone will…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 03 Mar 2017

A diptych character study featuring characters well-worth studying, Toni Erdmann is an affecting, delightful original…

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By Alonso Díaz De La Vega (67) for El Universal (183) on 01 Mar 2017

For its endless brilliance, I dare to call Toni Erdmann a masterpiece. [Full review in Spanish]…

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