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Movie Overview
Cast
Birol Unel
Sibel Kekilli
Catrin Striebeck
Director
Fatih Akin
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Head-On (2005)
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OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh
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4/5
"Un drama de altas proporciones"
Cinenganos
Alex Ramirez
"
Gegen die Wand
took home the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and I cannot but agree and recommend it highly."
european-films.net
Boyd van Hoeij
2/4
"...[peppered] with a variety of needlessly self-conscious touches that serve only to distract the viewer from the sporadically intriguing storyline..."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
C+
"A gloomy fairy-tale version of a Hollywood romantic film that barely gets past its gloomy outlook on life."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
2/4
"Like the film’s alterna-pop soundtrack and pop cultural references,
Head-On
is self-consciously badass."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
4/5
"(...) El punk no ha muerto, y esta película es prueba de ello."
Uruguay Total
Enrique Buchichio
C+
"A weepy romance is one thing, but
Head-On
is too sober to be weepy, not romantic enough to achieve any real emotional connection."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
B
"Isn't exactly a pleasant viewing experience, but it has a passion that's difficult to ignore."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
3.5/4
"main goal seems to be turning the pretensions of movie-style love on their head"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
3/5
"Like the film's odd couple, [Head-On] doesn't know when to say when."
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
B
"Ultimately more provocative than insightful."
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
4/5
"Not easy to watch, the characters are all strongly abrasive, and yet we are emotionally gripped."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
"
Head On
understands the tension between wanting to have nothing to do with the place from which you came and yet still, deep in your heart, somehow yearning for it."
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
4/4
"A familiar film done in fabulously unexpected fashion."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
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