Amrum
Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 17, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Film ThreatBen GliddenMay 14, 2026
The film works so well because of the development and portrayal of Nanning. He’s such a compelling character, slowly uncovering his family’s moral failings as the film progresses. He displays an inherent empathy for the world around him. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid OpieApr 15, 2026
There’s no outright preaching, no plea to condemn or sympathize either way. What unfolds is far more complex, morally speaking, even if the bones of the narrative and how it’s shot are deliberately pared down. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 27, 2026
That measured approach, exemplified in star Billerbeck’s arresting simplicity and the many fine supporting turns around him, allows us to clock Nanning’s growing awareness of what matters to others, what’s impossible to ignore and how to interpret an unjust world that’s still full of beauty and kindness if you know where to look. Which, of course, includes inside himself. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comClint WorthingtonApr 17, 2026
It’s a film whose tranquility and humility sometimes work against it, even in those moments where it overcorrects with didacticism. Read full review
80
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 23, 2025
Amrum is something of a departure for Akin, the kind of precision miniature work that can be achieved on a smaller canvas. Read full review
70
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannMay 23, 2025
Amrum doesn't fully confront all the questions it poses, instead serving as a meditation on the ways a child might respond to a world he doesn't fully understand. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEli FriedbergApr 14, 2026
Fatih Akin’s Amrum is a delicate coming-of-age parable tracking national identity and violence to their most intimate origin points during the waning days of the Third Reich. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMay 23, 2025
What does it mean to lose faith in one’s role models and form an identity outside their ideological purview? It’s a conventional narrative drama, but Amrum approaches this question with commendable tenderness. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaApr 17, 2026
To Akin’s credit, the film isn’t tastelessly sentimental (see “Jojo Rabbit”), and it depicts Nanning’s awakening with the kind of subtlety and restraint that suggests his moral education will continue evolving after the end of the movie. Read full review
80
The New YorkerJustin ChangApr 28, 2026
The new film is both Akin’s strongest and, with its stately, picturesque classicism, his least characteristic work in some time. Read full review
80
The Travers TakePeter TraversApr 17, 2026
Can a brainwashed boy in Hitler Youth learn to stop worrying and love being a Nazi hater? Beautifully directed by Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin, this unexpectedly tender mesmerizer has an answer you won’t see coming Read full review
83
TheWrapSteve PondMay 23, 2025
There’s nothing showy about Amrum, but it can leave an audience shaken. Akin has fashioned a rare film that relies on the power of simplicity to tell a story that is anything but simple. Read full review
90
VarietyTomris LafflyMay 23, 2025
There are no grand moments, enormous revelations or manipulatively overpowering scores in his delicately constructed and produced film — it is as narratively straightforward as movies come. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithApr 17, 2026
Amrum is a stirring example of how childhood reminiscence can stand for so much more. Read full review
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