Best & Worst Films at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival
One of international cinema's most prestigious annual events, the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (commonly known as the Berlinale) wrapped up this weekend, with Hungarian drama On Body and Soul earning the top award from a jury led by director Paul Verhoeven.
Below, we sample the reactions from film critics to that and other notable films premiering at this year's festival (including the upcoming X-Men film Logan, new features from Oren Moverman, Sally Potter, and Agnieszka Holland, and more).
In this adaptation of Herman Koch’s 2009 best-selling novel, writer-director Oren Moverman (Time Out of Mind) moves the action from Holland to the U.S. as a well-known politician (Richard Gere), his brother (Steve Coogan), and their wives (Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall) come to terms with a terrible crime perpetrated by their sons. It’s a “shouty, hammy, tedious, damp-squib firework display of dullness,” according to The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, though Owen Gleiberman of Variety believes it’s “tricky and riveting” with the “ominous verve of a thriller.”
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