Schultze Gets the Blues
Paramount Classics | Release Date: February 18, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Filmed in a leisurely, understated style, this dark comedy is downright entrancing. A spectacular directorial debut. Read full review
100
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
This deadpan ode to living life to its fullest could be the ultimate crowd-pleaser at this year's PIFF. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The writer and director, Michael Schorr, is making his first film, but has the confidence and simplicity of someone who has been making films forever. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A delightfully deadpan comedy from Germany, is one of those movies where nothing whatsoever seems to happen until you look closely, at which point everything happens. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It's the warmest, most generous portrait of American hospitality you've seen from a European movie in some time. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Michael Schorr's delightfully deadpan comedy debut blew away the German box office, and once you let yourself sink into its gentle rhythms, as slow and deliberate as those of its protagonist and inflected with tiny but significant shifts of pace and tone, you'll see why. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A sweet and charming treat. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Like the blues, you feel it first, and think of the meaning later. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
A droll, deadpan film, deliberately paced and told. Read full review
70
VarietyDavid Rooney
Small but charming film. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
With dialogue as spare as its harsh landscapes, the film is so tonally dry that it makes Aki Kaurismäki look like the Farrelly brothers--it begins at a snail's pace before speeding up to a turtle's drowsy crawl. Read full review
70
Village VoiceEdward Crouse
Ends up an intricate, becalmed take on a soul adrift. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
A quietly celebratory film about music and human kindness. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
A sweet movie that takes its time at first but soon takes you over. Read full review
70
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Schorr's endearing little movie gets under your skin much like the music it celebrates. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Krause is completely believeable as the solid old man, and though the story moves slower than molasses, it leaves the same dark aftertaste. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
It's a good thing the movie has so little dialogue, because when it talks, the words dilute its almost surreal visual spell, and the fructose turns to saccharine. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Simply too tedious and stretched out to be amusing. Had Schorr brought in his picture at 80 or 90 minutes Schultze might have been a different story. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Krause is very nearly too passive. Deadpan is one thing, an empty vessel is another. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverJean Oppenheimer
Schultze has a spare style, deliberately slow pace, and so little dialogue that to say it's in German with English subtitles seems to be stretching the truth. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
The scenery is pretty and the locals endearing, but Schorr never gets past charming. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
A sweet German movie by a first-time filmmaker, who, I would bet, is more than a little familiar with the early work of Jim Jarmusch or just about any Aki KaurismŠki film. Read full review
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