In the Fog
Strand Releasing | Release Date: June 14, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 13, 2013
Mr. Loznitsa doesn’t lighten the mood with any familiar filmmaking tricks: there are, for instance, no musical cues to guide you over the troubling or ambiguous passages. Like the characters, you work through each surprising turn. Read full review
100
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 20, 2013
This is a masterpiece of serious cinema; long, slow and grave as the grave. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJul 11, 2013
Intimate in the telling, sweeping in the implications, Loznitsa has created an unusually incisive film. Read full review
90
VarietyLeslie FelperinMay 20, 2013
In the Fog explores the moralities of wartime with restraint and exacting execution. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonJun 11, 2013
In the Fog has the inevitability of an avalanche, and only our overfamilarity with Nazi-tribulation scenarios, and perhaps its excessively punctuated ending, could slow it down. A better anti-summer blockbuster is hard to imagine. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonMay 20, 2013
It's a stark vision of humanity in a hellish world. Tough and thought-provoking. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonMay 20, 2013
The film repays patient viewing as it evolves into an engrossing, nuanced, philosophical drama. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 20, 2013
In the Fog is an intense, slow-burning and haunting drama. Read full review
75
Boston GlobePeter KeoughAug 9, 2013
As remorseless in style as it is in message, In the Fog offers little hope and few pleasures, but earns admiration for its elegant exploration of the lowest depths of the human condition. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnMay 20, 2013
In the Fog develops an unearthly spell that largely makes up for its cerebral pace. Read full review
63
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeJun 13, 2013
If the movie has a star, it may be cinematographer Oleg Mutu, the Romanian who lensed “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” and “4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.” Even when the pace wanes, the images are still gripping. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineTina HassanniaJun 13, 2013
Sergei Loznitsa occasionally writes his ideas too explicitly in the film's dialogue, though he makes up for this by deftly employing some ironic symbolism elsewhere. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichJun 11, 2013
Loznitsa would have done better to embrace the story’s enigmas as opposed to explicate them. Read full review
60
Total FilmKate StablesJun 7, 2013
The film strips away ideas of heroism mercilessly. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeMay 20, 2013
This philosophical war film is impressive and thought provoking but it’s also too restrained and pensive to ever completely connect. Read full review
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