Kontinental '25
1-2 Special | Release Date: March 27, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Irish TimesTara BradyOct 31, 2025
In common with Jude’s scathing attack on the gig economy and toxic online culture in Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Kontinental ’25 takes a scattershot approach to various targets: anti-Semitism, capitalism, nationalism and religious hypocrisy. The incomparable writer-director’s dark comedy doesn’t care to resolve its heroine’s quandary; it’s out to poke with ethical heft and barbed wit. Read full review
90
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 20, 2025
At once incisive and ambiguous, it’s proof that Jude is operating on a completely different level than most of his contemporaries. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 20, 2025
Everything in the characteristically hyper-literate Kontinental ’25 is shaped by influence and allusion, which itself points back to Jude’s singular predilection for refracting film history through the prism of modern life. The movie itself is essentially just one big riff on Roberto Rossellini’s “Europe ’51,” another hyper-topical story about a guilt-stricken woman’s search for peace. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 3, 2026
Jude is hardly precious about his craft. But that’s because he’s confident you’ll leave bursting with thoughts and feelings about the price of progress, the weight of history and the ways we struggle to do right amid so much that’s wrong. Read full review
80
Screen RantGregory NussenMar 24, 2026
Kontinental '25 is an acerbic film which makes you feel uncomfortable for chuckling your way through it, because by doing so you acknowledge an awkward sense of resonance with the guilty. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 20, 2026
It’s a sneak attack of a movie, one that invites your laughter, even as it jabs you in the ribs. Read full review
80
Little White LiesMarina AshiotiOct 31, 2025
It’s a film that is firmly grounded in the geopolitical specificity of Cluj, exploring ethnic tensions, economic inequalities, legacies of totalitarianism, the brutality of capitalism and the destructiveness of real estate – yet it’s through this local context that Jude gets to dig deep into the contradictions of our globalised, neoliberal world as the all-pervasive cultural and moral rot continues to spread. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMar 12, 2025
This story of a guilt-ridden bailiff ostensibly resembles conventional social realism but then broadens its scope fascinatingly, foregrounding satirical intent and a mischievous degree of verbal overload. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 20, 2025
Once again, Romanian film-maker Radu Jude has given us a garrulous, querulous movie of ideas – a scattershot fusillade of scorn. It is satirical, polemical, infuriated at the greedy and reactionary mediocrities in charge in his native land and wobbling on an unstable cusp between hope and despair. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMar 27, 2026
While this film is often funny, its ultimate bit of wisdom, from the New Testament, is dark and undeniable: “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneFeb 20, 2025
Radu Jude’s cinema isn’t exactly absurdist, though it exposes the absurdities of a present reeling from the unresolved injustices of yore. Read full review
70
IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellMar 28, 2026
Guilt certainly becomes her, and the narrative, which consists mainly of a handful of one-on-one interactions, yields often funny, sometimes surprising results. Read full review
70
The RevealScott TobiasMar 27, 2026
The secondhand guilt that comes from watching a conscientious woman reckon with her role in an institutional sin is immense and it’s a credit to Jude that he’s so willing to make his audience uncomfortable. Read full review
67
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferFeb 20, 2025
This lacks the zest and dynamism of Jude’s more subversive output, though even a minor work from a major filmmaker still manages to thrill and tantalize. Read full review
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