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Total Film - Jamie Graham | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'Haneke's 11th feature is his biggest and boldest to date, his best too. And for all its formal, thematic precision ? rigorous compositions, measured pacing, potent symbolism ? it is, ostensibly, a taut and sinister whodunit.' |
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Little White Lies - Dan Stewart | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Time will tell if it is Haneke's masterpiece, but it is certainly one of the finest films of the year.' |
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Evening Standard - Derek Malcolm | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'an unholy masterpiece' |
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The Observer - Philip French | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'a spellbinding movie, as exciting as a thriller, which, indeed, it resembles.' |
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The Independent - Sukhdev Sandhu | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'This grippingly sinister tale of an imploding family on the eve of the First World War is Michael Haneke's best film yet.' |
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The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'a profoundly disquieting movie, superbly acted and directed. Its sinister riddle glitters more fiercely each time I watch it.' |
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The Financial Times - Nigel Andrews | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'a film of subtle savagery and mordantly encompassing vision' |
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Time Out - Dave Calhoun | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'As a thriller, this is much more muted and subtle than ?Hidden'. The result is that there's more space for Haneke ? and us ? to consider the behaviour of his characters and the relationships between them. It's his least aggressive and most mature film ? a masterpiece from a director who is increasingly making a habit of them.' |
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The Independent on Sunday - Jonathan Romney | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'ultimately, I find The White Ribbon hard to embrace with undiluted enthusiasm, it's because of its very mastery, which can make Haneke's films feel as airless as the worlds he depicts. His severity and formal perfectionism are at once Olympian and oddly old-fashioned: for a director often considered something of an avant-gardist, Haneke's artistic confidence and philosophical authority make him something like the Tolstoy of contemporary art cinema.' |
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The Sun - The Sneak | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'one of the most challenging movies of recent times. More impressively, it grips like an old fashioned thriller.'
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